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...defenders have come from Britain. In 1831, a young Englishman, Joseph James Forrester, came to Porto, learned Portuguese, mapped the Douro region, wrote treatises on grape growing and exhorted the wine growers to stop adulterating their wines with sugar, elderberry and brandy. That legacy lives on in the large, dark, cool cave of Graham's, part of the Symington group and typical of the lodges open to tourists. Visitors learn every step of the wine-making process while taking in the strong smell of aging wine and grand views of the old city of Porto across the river. The lodges...
...wonderful, absolutely mind-boggling,” Begley says of first moving to Brooklyn. “Where shall I begin? It was the scenes of extraordinary plenty. Poland was a desert state, even France was a pretty grim place to be in 1947—dark shortages of everything, an immense kind of fatigue...
These new initiatives have helped. Marked escorts now frequent the streets during the evening to accompany students walking alone after dark, and HUPD has increased the presence of police officers on foot, riding bicycles and in cars across campus, targeting areas where the assaults have occurred and the routes students frequent. Extended van service and a new transportation hotline provide students with more transportation late at night...
...thus far. Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), now 13 and in his third year at Hogwarts' School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, is challenged by the escape of the notorious Sirius Black (Gary Oldman) from Azkaban, the Alcatraz of the wizardly world. With a new danger, a new protector: Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor Lupin (David Thewlis), a wise, kindly gent with the habit of disappearing every few weeks, then returning with unseemly scratches on his face. Aided by his school chums Hermione (Emma Watson) and Ron (Rupert Grint), Harry must discern protective friend from mortal foe at the risk...
Lars Von Trier, the Danish auteur OF Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark and Dogville, positively revels in his reputation as a demonic director, a sadist-artist. He's known to torture actors--and often audiences--with his bizarre methods of moviemaking. With The Five Obstructions, he exercises his movie malevolence on a fellow filmmaker (and Dane), the veteran Jorgen Leth...