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...late 1995, after a heady decade of 15%-to-20% annual sales growth, Vintner's Reserve Chardonnay began to falter. Gallo's Turning Leaf, priced at $6, was cheaper than Kendall-Jackson's $10 bottle; but its packaging, from the flanged top, visible cork and thin, cigar-band neck wrapper down to its multicolored grape leaf, was strikingly similar...
...Maximo Cuellar '00, who said he is an avid cigar smoker, said he believes that Harvard should provide alternative indoor locations where students can smoke...
...field. They excelled at their studies, music and campus politics--yet both failed in their bids for student president in college. Both avoided the draft. Both married politically shrewd women from families of higher social standing. Neither man much cares for alcohol, though both enjoy a celebratory cigar. Both are Baptists who believe in "redemption and resurrection"--as Lott often reminds a wayward lawmaker whose vote he is seeking...
WAYNE GRETZKY His career not yet on ice, the Great One takes heat for puffing on Cigar Aficionado's cover...
Well, maybe. But cigar bars are sprouting up all over the place, with sales of premium, hand-rolled cigars rising about 50% this year, to nearly $600 million. Luxury goods from Jaguars to jewelry are flying out of stores, and Manhattan's chichi restaurants can't possibly charge enough...