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...this particular day, he has squeezed an afternoon lecture at HKS in between meeting with his staff and calling potential donors. He began going door-to-door in the late afternoon and has now been at it for more than two hours...
...freshman began the game ranked 14th in the nation with 7.13 saves per game. Her 12 stops last night will move her even further up the rankings...
President George W. Bush, eight years ago today, in his first press conference after launching the Afghan war, conceded he didn't know when the conflict would end. "People often ask me, 'How long will this last?' " he said 96 hours after the invasion began. "It may happen tomorrow, it may happen a month from now, it may take a year or two, but we will prevail." Three weeks into the war, New York Times reporter R.W. Apple wrote that "the ominous word quagmire has begun to haunt conversations" in Washington about the conflict. Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld had little...
...stock of fine wines. But most of that stash - the largest in the world on a per capita basis - has been stored abroad because the city charged an onerous duty on imported wines that at one point reached as high as 80%. Then, two years ago, the market really began to flourish when the government scrapped all wine and spirits duties. To encourage the creation of a local wine industry, authorities also abolished most of the paperwork surrounding wine imports, and importers were allowed to have customs inspections inside wine cellars, saving delicate vintages from examination in the scorching dockside...
...measures, implemented in February, 2008, had a marked effect: the value of wine imported into the city in 2008 surged by more than 80%. As wine shops, tasting seminars and cellars proliferated, more Hong Kong residents began taking an interest in drinking wine, not just investing in it. Said noted wine critic Jancis Robinson, editor of The Oxford Companion to Wine: "I have never before, in my 30-plus years in wine, witnessed a government so consciously targeting the fine-wine market." (Watch Joel Stein drink his way through wine from ten different U.S. states...