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...volume but much more complex wines. South African producers are pushing hard into new markets, too, including Germany, Russia, the U.S. and Sweden, which alone now takes 10% of South Africa's exports. So far, the strategy is working fine. "Our capacity to grow is fairly limited," says Sue Birch, chief executive of the industry body Wines of South Africa, "so if we're going to be a niche player it is important to make a really premium product." Producers still have one problem in common with the French: even as their exports continue to grow, their domestic market...
...ONION PEELS RIGHT The Republican National Committee launches America Weakly, a conservative fake- news venture to compete with scads of liberal fake-news ventures. It appears to have imported a magic joke-writing John Birch robot from 1950 to produce most of the copy. Sample horoscope: "Beware of experiencing too much prosperity and wealth; it may result in more burden and commitment to Uncle Sam." Perhaps it's easier to skewer the Federal Government if you actually believe it should exist...
...always thought I was going to be a journalist,” he said. “I didn’t get involved in The Crimson for reasons I don’t yet understand.”The history and sociology concentrator campaigned as an undergraduate for Birch E. Bayh, a Democratic presidential candidate in 1976, and wrote his undergraduate thesis on Huey P. Long, Jr., the radical populist who served as governor and senator from Louisiana in the 1920s and 1930s. After graduation, Lamont worked for a small weekly paper in Ludlow, Vermont, eventually becoming...
...history and sociology concentrator campaigned as an undergraduate for Birch E. Bayh, a Democratic presidential candidate in 1976, and wrote his undergraduate thesis on Huey P. Long, Jr.—the radical populist who served as governor and senator from Lousiana in the 1920s and 1930s...
...anger at President Carter, its confidence in Reagan, its unhappiness about the economy, its growing conservatism, its resurgent Republicanism. Whether few or all of these interpretations prove correct, the commentary has undoubtedly heartened many of the voters who elected Reagan, who voted Senators George McGovern and Birch Bayh out of office, who passed proposition 2 1/2 in Massachusetts, who elected Alfonse D’Amato to the Senate from New York. They wanted their votes to add up to a “mandate,” and it looks like that’s the way the nation...