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...cutting back opium production. Yes indeed, as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld put it with unaccustomed understatement, "Democracy is untidy." Tragically, Americans, Afghans and the entire world are paying the price for the untidiness that we have wrought. Might there have been a better way? Robert G. Newman, M.D., Director Baron Edmond de Rothschild Chemical Dependency Institute Beth Israel Medical Center New York City...
DIED. LAURANCE ROCKEFELLER, 94, one of five grandsons of oil baron John D. Rockefeller, who made his mark as a philanthropist, venture capitalist and conservationist; in New York City. Among his prominent siblings, he was a reserved visionary; a pioneer in the new field of venture capitalism, who helped Captain Eddie Rickenbacker start Eastern Airlines; and a lover of the outdoors, who helped establish or enlarge national parks from New York to the Grand Tetons in Wyoming. "We feel," he once said of his philanthropic clan, "you must give with the heart as well as the head...
...sitters' idiosyncratic personalities and features, cropping the image closely so that the figure and its costume fill the frame, sometimes leaving a small high window for a distorted view of fantasy skyscrapers right out of the 1927 German movie Metropolis. In 1939, she and her second husband, art collector Baron Raoul Kuffner, emigrated to the U.S., and her glittering career came to an abrupt end as the Art Deco style reached its sell-by date. But she lived to see the rediscovery of her between-the-wars work in the '70s, and its acclaim by a new generation, before dying...
...Baron is but one of a pioneering crop of winemakers who have been stretching their trade across the eastern part of Washington. The state built its wine reputation on Bordeaux-like blends, using Merlot and Cabernet...
After falling in love with a plot of very rocky soil, Cristophe Baron moved from the Champagne region of France to Walla Walla, Wash. (home of the sweet onion), in 1993. Today, as the state's only biodynamic (uberorganic) winemaker, he is producing plump, cultworthy Syrah, the noble grape of the northern Rhone, under his label, Cayuse...