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...world is Club Tropicana. Owned by a genial 45-year-old named Aguinaldo Salvaterra, the Tropicana is tucked behind the grand pink and blue Portuguese town houses that line the seafront of São Tomé. It's a little poky, but the beer is cold and, crucially in a town that rises late, enjoys a siesta and retires at dusk, Salvaterra rarely leaves his stool, which means the Tropicana is the one place in São Tomé that's nearly always open. Lately, that has made it the venue of choice for a new kind...
...with anger after reading the article on the Baghdad Country Club [May 7]. Cheers to all of the contract workers who get to enjoy themselves with cigars and cocktails after a long day of earning bloated salaries under the protection of allied troops. The contractors' fear of not having beer delivered is tremendously stressful and surely the need to unwind is well deserved. But they can rest assured that the Country Club is secure, thanks to the many young soldiers fighting beyond the walls of the Green Zone. Those soldiers, I would add, do not have the pleasure of patronizing...
...course, if caramel and raisin don't sound like torchworthy qualities for wine, that's because J.W. Lees isn't a wine. It's a beer, one of about two dozen on Gramercy Tavern's new vintage-beer list...
...mother says he asked for a copy of Moby Dick as a Christmas present in second grade.) In college he was as serious about conditioning his body as he was his mind. He played pickup basketball in some of L.A.'s toughest neighborhoods. Once, late at night, after drinking beer with Bell, Blue told Bell he was going for a run. He donned a flak jacket for added weight and ran the darkened L.A. streets alone for hours, finally returning to the house shortly before dawn...
...Department of Labor, even a union organizer. In all, they spend almost four hours filling out paperwork, watching movies about how to avoid pesticide sickness and getting a set of no-nonsense rules (if you fight, you're fired; don't use the fire extinguisher to cool your beer) from the North Carolina Growers Association, the organization that brought them from Mexico. They are then driven to farms scattered across the state, where they will spend the summer months picking tobacco before heading back to Mexico...