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...Burgundy and Pinot Noir are synonymous) and in just a few rocky pockets in such places as Australia, Canada, South America and Europe, along with Oregon's Willamette Valley and the coolest spots in California. As for New Zealand's Central Otago Pinots, the pioneers who planted this epic landscape with vines in the 1970s were deemed madmen...
...prices going back to 1890, which showed that a) the price runup from 1997 to 2006 was by far the biggest on record and b) home prices can fall for decades. Put those two together, Shiller argues, and it's at least possible that we're due for an epic decline in prices. "People think that home prices go up a lot," he says. "But home prices in 1990 were at about the same level as in 1890." Shiller allows that the scarcity of property near the coasts might mean prices there will remain high, but then notes...
...elections next March, when the Socialists could recapture strategic cities like Toulouse, Bordeaux, Reims, Rouen and Caen. Before then, Sarkozy counts on demonstrating the left's weakness, which he can do only as the young General Bonaparte did upon becoming First Consul: by portraying each new battle as both epic and victorious...
...Iraqis to blame? Everyone is to blame. The U.S. marched blindly into Iraq, dreaming of Arab democracy, only to create a sinkhole of regional instability. In a pair of epic fiascos, Donald Rumsfeld, Defense Secretary at the time, okayed an invasion force that was probably too small by half - and then agreed with U.S. envoy L. Paul Bremer to cashier the entire Iraqi army two months later. But it's also true that for four years, the Iraqi government has had literally more money than it could spend and yet has produced little to show for it. Basic supplies...
...sides rolled into my neighborhood, and two women in powder blue chadors opened its doors to unveil a portable library. They smiled at passersby and handed out white gladioluses and free books as part of a municipal program to promote reading. I got children's editions of epic Persian poetry to read to my nephew. "This is positive, at least," said an elderly neighbor. "But people are so unhappy, no one notices when they...