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...Walker, Joseph J. Vitale serves the crucial role of rectifier and he oversees the “rectifying” process. According to Vitale, in order to produce vodka, pure alcohol and treated water are mixed. Then it is finished with charcoal filters and activated carbon. The three most important steps are mixing, treating and proofing. The latter is a very delicate operation because, as any vodka drinker knows, the proof determines the alcohol content—for instance, 80 proof is 40 percent alcohol. After the filtering, the substance is shipped over to the bottling tank. The entire process...
...Making sure that the fabric of the community is preserved, that is very crucial to the morale of the schools and the functioning of schools...
...turned out, Arbus would be crucial in the transition that documentary photography made from the social concerns of the '30s to the personal obsessions it began to take on in the 1950s. She went to private schools but never college. In 1941 she married Allan Arbus, who worked in her father's store. After the war they opened a fashion-photography partnership. In the '50s she studied with Lisette Model, a photographer who knew the power of people thrust forward heavily into the frame. In time Arbus' marriage decayed, but all the while she was creating herself...
...however, Mallya astonished everyone by deciding to enter politics. Although big business has always been a crucial source of campaign funds, politicians have traditionally maintained an air of Gandhian poverty, dressing in hand-spun clothes and driving battered domestic Ambassador automobiles. Mallya, by contrast, openly celebrates his wealth, and with his wife and two daughters in America and a son at school in England, his connection to India sometimes seems tenuous. Nonetheless, Mallya ran for an indirect election (in which votes are cast only by members of state legislatures) to India's largely ceremonial upper house of Parliament...
...Crimson manages to win out, it will have reached the crucial ten-win mark, which was good enough for Harvard to receive an invite to the NCAA Tournament in the 2001 season. But that year, the Crimson also finished second in the Ivy League, a benchmark which will be difficult to achieve this time around...