He rarely drinks alcohol, even though he regularly schmoozes at wine-soaked business suppers, because after midnight is when he powers through e-mails before collapsing at 3 a.m.

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And finally they ignored the elementary rule that children rarely choose their parents' drinks, which meant that the young Chinese, often educated in America, took to wine or beer, disdaining the bottle of cognac which had formed the centrepiece of their parents' dining tables.

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