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What do Rhett, Scarlett and the burning of Atlanta have to do with California Cabernet? Frankly, my dear, absolutely nothing. Still, Fujisankei Communications Group is betting that the gang from Tara may hold the key to marketing American wines in Japan. The company has uncorked a new line of four California wines to be sold in Japan under a Gone With the Wind label. It hopes to capitalize on Japan's near obsessive love for the 1939 epic, which company official Tsutomu Nakamura describes as "a symbol of American culture and an unforgettable dream of youth...
Instead of meeting the challenge of crew, my classmates busily build their resumes. They live for their dear student publications, involve themselves in the pretense of Harvard student government, organize themselves in self-billed nerd organizations, pass countless hours gorging their minds in Cabot Library and participate in other nice and pleasant self-improvement activities...
...their culture and their people, minority students at elite schools are often overprotective of their experience. For fear of saying the wrong thing, they say nothing at all. These are private matters, I am told, not to be discussed with strangers. To the meek who hold their image so dear, the story of Joe Razo--though compelling--is a messy tar-baby that is best left untouched. Still, I touch...
...Last fall Washington Times gossip writer Charlotte Hays heard that actress Kelly McGillis, who had signed for the season at the Shakespeare Theater at the Folger, was pregnant and would leave months early. "The accuracy of the rumor was obvious from the way the Folger reacted. They said, 'Oh dear, she'll have to talk to you.' " Even though McGillis didn't call back, Hays confidently went ahead, and the item was soon confirmed...
...specific meetings, memos, dates, names, Reagan's mind was pretty much a blank. General Vessey? "Oh dear, I could ask for help here. The name I know is very familiar." (It should be: he was Reagan's Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.) Adolfo Calero? Reagan could not recall the most famous of the contra leaders even after he was shown a picture of the two of them together at a White House gathering. He had somehow missed the fact that McFarlane pleaded guilty in 1988 to withholding information from Congress. Shown the section of the Tower commission report...