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Morris, Errol • photo editors are invited by to present key images from the George W. Bush era, with the stunning final three (by Reuters' Jim Bourg)-do scroll down!-hinting at the possibility that he at last has some glimmer of the miserable hash he made of, well, everything...
...Table Stories range by Tord Boontje for Authentics If fairy tales are an inspiration for Boontje's Table Stories collection, the results are anything but Grimm. The in-demand Dutchman, whose studio is in Bourg-Argental, France, has created delightfully florid underglaze prints that will charm even your grouchiest guest. With such fantastical forest creatures hiding beneath your food, magic at mealtimes is guaranteed. www.authentics.de...
...quality-control system is being implemented that, if enforced properly, could lead to underperforming wineries losing their right to call their wine Bordeaux. The Council is also quietly encouraging the 57 different Bordeaux appellations to consolidate. Five big areas - the Côtes de Blaye, Côtes de Bourg, Côtes de Castillon, Côtes de Francs and Côtes de Bordeaux - are now close to an agreement to combine into one single expanded Côtes de Bordeaux. The measures only go so far: they still leave 17,000 different Bordeaux wine labels, and only...
...shudder at those tough measures, but the region is racing to better compete. Taking a page from the Aussie book, they are trying to simplify the branding by consolidating some of the 57 separate appellations that are now marketed. Five big areas--Côtes de Blaye, Côtes de Bourg, Côtes de Castillon, Côtes de Francs and Côtes de Bordeaux--are planning to combine into a single, expanded Côtes de Bordeaux label. And the Interprofessional Bordeaux Wine Council, the main industry group, recently scrapped 1990s regulations that forbade vintners from making vin ordinaire from their lesser...
...giga-gagged. Choked. Race pundits didn't just write Landis off as a contender; they hurled him off the Col du Galibier. Even Landis seemed to accept his fate. "I don't expect to win the Tour at this point," he said after the 112-mile disaster from Bourg d' Osians into the Alpine ski town of La Toussuire. All he wanted, he said, was a beer...