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After the French Revolution, Dom Pérignon's legacy was kept hushed until the 20th century, when it re-emerged as a sensation. In 1936, Doris Duke purchased 100 bottles of the first vintage sold in the U.S.; 68 years later, a case of that vintage sold at auction for nearly $25,000. Grace Kelly requested that it be served at her wedding to Prince Rainier, Elizabeth Taylor celebrated her 1961 Oscar win over a bottle of it, and Aristotle Onassis was known to keep a chilled bottle at the ready at Maxim's restaurant in Paris. Marilyn Monroe...
...just one of a multitude of ridiculous walking bets: "Peter Radford, in his book The Celebrated Captain Barclay, recounts some gloriously eccentric pedestrian contests. One was devised by 'an unnamed Duke' who wagered a thousand guineas that he could find a man to walk the ten miles from Piccadilly to Hounslow within three hours, taking three steps forward and one step back...
...lack of success against high-quality opponents as motivation for Saturday.“We shouldn’t be satisfied just getting into the tournament,” Fucito warned. “[Coach Clark] stresses the fact that against the other teams in the tournament—Duke, BU, Dartmouth, Penn—we haven’t done well. So we have something to prove and it won’t be an easy road.”Harvard is relishing its status as underdog.“You can see from the last two years that...
...Either way, it is clear that he will have to come up with a solution quickly. "Guantánamo Bay, for most people, is a lightning rod for everything that's wrong with the United States," says Scott Silliman, a law professor at Duke University and director of the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security. "I'm not sure Obama would be able to back away from his campaign pledge...
...Still, it could have been worse. After eight ugly years of AIG, WMDs, Abu Ghraib, Enron, Blackwater, freedom fries, yellowcake, record deficits, Fannie and Freddie and Brownie, Mark Foley and Duke Cunningham and Tom DeLay, the Republican Party should qualify for a bailout. Retiring GOP Congressman Tom Davis memorably declared that if Republicans were a dog food, they'd be pulled off the shelves. Their usually well-funded candidates were badly outspent this cycle, but they've survived to fight for more kibble in the future. (See the screwups of Campaign...