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ARGENTINE WINE Don't cry for Argentina. The popularity of its wine is soaring. Varieties like Malbec (grown in the Mendoza region) are winning over U.S. oenophiles with their bold flavors...
...Well, of course there was, as there is every four years. There was a World Cup, stupid. There was a monthlong celebration of the global game, played to the highest levels, with the usual mixture of sublime skill (the early performances by Argentina and Spain), promise unfulfilled (England's hapless, overpaid team), bad luck (Australia's exit), bad behavior (Portugal) and a controversy for the ages (Zin?dine Zidane's head butt?which, by the way, was the moment when YouTube made it into the consciousness of a whole collection of fogies who had hitherto been blithely unaware of its existence...
Andrea M. Spillmann ’08, who participated in the College’s Argentina program during its pilot semester, says she was pleased with a program that allowed her to immerse herself in a new culture...
...wasn't safe: in 1976, Pinochet henchmen assassinated former Chilean ambassador and Pinochet opponent Orlando Letelier by planting a bomb under his car in Washington, D.C. That same year, Pinochet's successes helped inspire the right-wing military coup that led to the even bloodier Dirty War in neighboring Argentina...
...ceremonies, which some Conservative rabbis have been performing already without official sanction. The University of Judaism, a seminary in Los Angeles, will almost certainly begin making gay rabbis immediately; New York's Jewish Theological Seminary will debate the issue and probably decide to follow suit. Two smaller seminaries in Argentina and Hungary may continue the no-gays route...