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...many of Harvard’s wine lovers, he was eager and garrulous when talking about his passion for wine and the highlights of his cave, ranging from late 1960s Châteauneuf-du-Pape to a group of 1982 Firestone Vineyards, “gathering a lot of dust as they...
...doesn't look like much. Situated on a dead-end mere blocks from the colorful spires of Red Square and the dazzling neon of Tverskaya shopping district, it's just another of the city's many renovation projects surrounded by barbed wire and covered with a thick layer of dust. But beneath rickety scaffolding, the building's towering columns and gilded fixtures tell a different story. Under renovation since 2005, this is the Bolshoi Theater, home of the fabled 231-year-old Bolshoi Ballet Company. From his cozy office in the Bolshoi's labyrinthine headquarters across the square, artistic director...
...would be to actually read the thing. THE DOUBLE BIND by Chris Bohjalian A lithe blonde on a crisp spring day is pictured riding her bicycle in front of a white picket fence. It is not until one actually purchases and reads the book (or, in case, the dust jacket) that one realizes that “The Double Bind” is actually the story of the “savage attack” of the female protagonist while riding that very bicycle. Oh, that silly publishing house! THE MEASURE OF A MAN: A SPIRITUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Sidney Poitier...
...dust-up between Clinton and Obama? What dust-up? Talk to Iowans, especially Democrats, about this week's set-to between the Clinton and Obama campaigns and you can almost hear a collective "Oh give me a break." Some worry about the possibility of "Swift-boating" to come. "For negativity to start this early is ridiculous but inevitable," says Megan Peiffer, 22, a Des Moines Democrat who works for a local nonprofit. "It will do more harm than good." Alan Young, 44, president of the teachers union in Des Moines, adds "Most folks in Iowa do want to hear...
...Still, if the dust-ups continue between the Clinton and Obama camps, some see an opening for other Democrats, including Senator John Edwards, with his widely-admired grassroots organization and lingering popularity from 2004 when he came in a strong second in the caucuses. Another potential beneficiary could have been former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack, a sentimental local favorite, but he announced Friday that he was already giving up his long-shot campaign. "If all the attention is on Obama and Clinton now and they do damage themselves, why, it's really hard to say. People come from behind," says...