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...Stellenbosch, a half-hour drive east of Cape Town. But though it enjoys international celebrity, Stellenbosch produces just 11% of the country's wines?meaning that there are a great deal more wine districts to be discovered. Generating lots of buzz among oenophiles at the moment is Walker Bay, a relatively new wine-growing area a couple of hundred kilometers to the south. At harvest time, this coastal wine ward enjoys milder temperatures, thanks to the sea breezes produced by the Atlantic's cold Benguela current. The result, partisans claim, is enhanced grape aroma and wine quality?particularly for Chardonnay...
...HAMILTON RUSSELL: One of the first estates to put Walker Bay on the map, Hamilton Russell, tel: (27-28) 312 3595, produces Pinot Noir and Chardonnay wines that beautifully express the area's stony, clay-rich and shale-derived terroir. Citrus notes enhance the Chardonnay's mineralized dryness, while the Pinot Noir is robust and fruity, with hints of coffee...
...future is in good hands with institutions like West Point producing our future leaders. Jeffrey E. O'Neil Chanhassen, Minnesota, U.S. A Story Gone Wrong Re your report on Newsweek's botched item on mistreatment of the Koran at the U.S. detention center at Guantá namo Bay [May 30]: The media have let themselves be bamboozled by the Bush Administration once again. Officials concentrated on putting out stories about how Newsweek got it wrong, and we lost sight of the story of the desecration of the Koran. Our mainstream media outlets are much too quick with the mea culpas...
...your report on Newsweek's botched item on mistreatment of the Koran at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay [May 30]: The media have let themselves be bamboozled by the Bush Administration once again. Officials concentrated on putting out stories about how Newsweek got it wrong, and we lost sight of the story of the desecration of the Koran. Our mainstream media outlets are much too quick with the mea culpas. How about a little tenacity when it comes to standing up to the White House? Shouldn't Bush's spotty National Guard record have been pursued instead...
...prisoner known around the U.S. naval station at Guantánamo Bay as Detainee 063 was a hard man to break. Defiant from the start, he told his captors that he had been in Afghanistan to pursue his love of falconry. But the young Saudi prisoner who wouldn't talk was not just any detainee. He was Mohammed al-Qahtani, a follower of Osama bin Laden's and the man believed by many to be the so-called 20th hijacker. He had tried to enter the U.S. in August 2001, allegedly to take part in the Sept. 11 attacks. But while...