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...importing what has become a 12-brand sake portfolio, which accounts for about 30% of the company's sales. Lehrman says that sake's lack of tannin structure and its low acidity compared with wine make it a drink that's hard not to like. "Our role is part evangelist and part educator," he says. He educates restaurants and retailers on sake's finer points, which, he says, can be approached through a lens of wine knowledge. "The kind of wine you like is the kind of sake you like," he says. "It seems to be a direct crossover...
...York City; and regular appearances in the society pages along with his wife Sloan. Today Barnett, 43, has a job at a direct-selling company in a nondescript office park about an hour inland from San Francisco. Like most people in direct sales, he has a touch of the evangelist about him. He really, really wants you to like the cleaning products, vitamin supplements and beauty products he's representing. Sloan, for her part, has been boosting the new business by hosting parties to demonstrate her husband's wares. Sound like a fall from grace? Far from it. Roger Barnett...
Last Wednesday, between a Cabinet meeting and an address on the future of U.S.-Cuban relations, President George W. Bush had a long-overdue lunch with his old friend and spiritual mentor, evangelist Billy Graham...
...good preachers know to give their congregations some breathing space before heading into the main point of their sermon. Huckabee used that rhythm as well with a story about the early 20th century evangelist Billy Sunday. And then he got down to business. Zinging his opponents, Huckabee said that social conservatives need a candidate who speaks "the language of Zion as a mother tongue." And challenging the Christian Right leaders who are lining up behind Romney and, to a lesser extent, candidates like Fred Thompson, he urged: "Let us not sacrifice our principles for anybody's politics...
...stories to the anthology. The editors and writers focused their discussion on short stories and read excerpts from the compilation. King spoke briefly about his experience as a guest editor and said that short-story writing is becoming a lost art. “I always feel like an evangelist for the short story,” King said. “We’re gunslingers,” he said. “We’re out on our own.” King played the part well, urging audience members at the sold-out event...