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...hundred Americans have to pay a levy called the "generation-skipping tax," which is 55% on transfers of more than $1 million from a grandparent to a grandchild. But Dole once helped shrink even that paltry number at the urging of two of his biggest cash donors, Ernest and Julio Gallo. According to the Center for Public Integrity, the Gallos, who own the biggest wine-making company in the country, are Dole's largest financial backers, having given more than $1 million over the years. But that is a modest investment compared with the $80 million that the Gallos were...
...WINEMAKERS ERNEST AND JULIO GALLO...
Choi's notions of knowledge and education are, as Ernest Gellner might have said, wholly pre-industrial. They typify the thinking that predominated in all the great book-religions until the transformations of the past 300 years. In these religions, knowledge was presumed to have come from a divine source and to be contained in sacred scriptures. Only a select few, it was thought, could interpret these works correctly, faithful to the divine will. In the great book-religions, these great books specifically, and language more generally, partook of the sacred; the path to truth and to divinity passed through...
...performers with male-teen appeal, bought. Sandler's first two films, Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore, were crude and slouchy, but they returned enough money on modest investments to turn Sandler into the next worst thing to a movie star. Now he raises the stakes, playing in director Ernest Dickerson's industrial-strength action comedy Bulletproof with Damon Wayans, graduate of another TV sketch show, In Living Color, and a person of actual charm and talent...
...compiled the King James version strove for accuracy and directness and produced, in the process, some of the greatest poetry in the language. That Bible inspired, among so much else, John Wesley's hymns, the Book of Common Prayer, the speeches of Abraham Lincoln and the prose rhythms of Ernest Hemingway. It became the great resonator, the shared reference uniting English-speaking peoples around the world...