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...even before he bought it. When he summoned the bosses of Kirch's TV networks for interviews, he would occasionally address one of his lieutenants in Hebrew, assuming no one else would understand. He was startled when one Kirch honcho shot back, "I know what you're saying." (This account, confirmed by three sources close to the talks, was denied by a spokeswoman for Saban...
...sake-loving, Edo-era lord and means "drunken whale." Though production has not increased much in its kura, built in 1872, Suigei has nevertheless increased revenues 30% over the past decade by concentrating on quality sake. Shigeji Ishimoto, the brewery head, says top-grade daiginjo and ginjo sake account for 75% of Suigei's $6.3 million in sales, up from almost nothing when my grandfather bought it in 1968. Last year its daiginjo won a gold medal at the national sake competition...
...major breweries, much of this process today is automated. Most of what those kura produce is sake of regular grade, often sold in paper cartons and best served hot. Its low quality may account for falling sales. Some breweries, including many in Kobe's Nada ward--sake central for centuries because of its pure mountain-spring water--are trying to reach younger drinkers with products like low-alcohol, low-calorie sake, while also appealing to Japanese nostalgia by encouraging visits. Hakutsuru, the No. 1 brewery, has preserved its 1743 kura as a museum to showcase ancient sakemaking methods...
...conservative Christian base than overwhelmingly Democratic Jewish voters on the subject of Israel. Bush’s Middle East policy, as a result, has become considerably hard-line, negatively affecting the prospects for peace in the region. In The Right Man, Bush speechwriter David Frum’s account of the Bush presidency, the president seems only too willing to toe the Christian Zionist line: “If Bush had a political worry, it was his own political base: conservatives, both religious and secular” writes Frum. “‘What do you think...
...sixth, Hale singled in two more runs to account for the rest of Harvard’s scoring...