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...Crush Camp, where laypeople get to be part of wine country's fall harvest, is the most sophisticated addition yet to the pantheon of self-improvement weekends for the BlackBerry set. It joins BMW Performance Driving School, Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy Camp and the original wish-fulfillment adventure, the one in which Cal Ripken puts on a convincing face and tells you that you've got a pretty good swing. Only instead of bond traders, Crush Camp is packed with people who take private yoga classes and won this trip at a benefit auction for the Junior League...
Diageo, the world's biggest liquor company, created Crush Camp two years ago and clearly doesn't care if the camp makes money. That became obvious not when I added up my two days of hotel stay, shuttle rides between vineyards and awesome catered meals but when I opened a second bottle of 1994 Beaulieu Vineyard Georges de Latour Private Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon over dinner. Diageo must figure there's no more valuable marketing tool than a guy at a dinner party boring other guests with stories about how he might have picked the very Merlot grapes they're drinking...
...Katie and Suzie both know how to place shots on both sides,” Cebron said. “They both are really versatile hitters, they know when to crush the ball and when to tip it. They get tons of tips by just being smart...
...children in front of your eyes"--who are all that's left of human civilization. The man's only goals are these: to remember a happy day on a lake with his uncle, to resist the temptation of suicide (the boy's mother gave in to it), and to crush all goodness and empathy in his son, so he won't waste their precious resources helping fellow survivors...
...powerful aide himself. In Dec. 2000, he sent a message trying to ingratiate himself with Rove, noting "I am sure you well covered with everything, but just in case, please do not hesitate to ask me for anything you might need." Sounding like a high school nerd with a crush on the captain of the cheerleading team, he brags about and overstates his few actual interactions with Rove. A March 2002 e-mail says "I was sitting yesterday with Karl Rove, Bush's top adviser, at the NCAA basketball game discussing Israel when this e-mail came in. I showed...