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Apple's big event today in San Francisco left many people wondering: What the heck was that all about? Normally, the great Steve Jobs uses his time on the podium to delight and surprise the masses. But today he gave little more than a preview of the new holiday line of iPods, and the TV ads that will accompany them...
...were bad. In general, the wines were better than I predicted, given the newness of many operations, but all the people who tasted with me thought the U.S. had let them down. "Overall, there were some stinkers," said Gary Vaynerchuk, author of 101 Wines Guaranteed to Inspire, Delight and Bring Thunder to Your World, who joined me in trying to guess which bottles were from which states. "That being said, the wines showed the potential of better things to come over the next five to 10 years...
...almost not important enough to have an opinion about," he said. "Unfortunately, it is also already clichéd for someone from Harvard to dismiss the rankings as unimportant while basking in the secret delight of being officially 'the best...
...London 2012 said they didn't want to compete with the Closing Ceremony's cast of thousands - 7,000 performers, in fact, on top of the 15,000 used in the Opening Ceremony - employed by Chinese director Zhang Yimou, who was in charge of both ceremonies. But small can delight...
...Today, she not only sings in Mandarin and Mongolian but also Tibetan, Sanskrit and a language of her own invention - the latter being a terrible affectation or a delight, depending on your point of view. Sa's look will engender the same kind of polarized response. She frequently poses like the Buddha in promotional photos, even though she is not actually a Buddhist. "Buddhism is a big part of Chinese culture," she says by way of explanation. "I'm interested in learning about...