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...Defense of Wine's Terroir In "Fifty States of Wine," we have more underinformed pabulum [Oct. 6]. I am no snob, but I expect what's in the bottle to accurately reflect the wine's place of origin, traditions, agricultural history and, yes, terroir, which describes all of the preceding. Neither Joel Stein nor Fred Franzia has enough understanding of the subject to speak of it intelligently and should not be relied on to teach curious readers. David Moore, Moore Brothers Wine Co., Pennsauken...
...tell the great American middle class that its problems are not its fault. Or that, whoever may be at fault, the problems can be solved if only we can agree on a tax cut. When in the second presidential debate the candidates were asked what "sacrifices" Americans should expect to make in order to address the financial crisis, John McCain promised to "examine every agency and every bureaucracy of government" and "eliminate those that aren't working," though he didn't name any. Barack Obama said "each and every one of us" would have to "start thinking about...
...system that has long placed religious studies above science and math (unlike that of the élites, who are often Western-educated). Reforms are under way, but it will be years before Saudi universities are churning out world-class engineers in the numbers the country needs. Nor can businesses expect to simply import employees, which has long been the norm in the Persian Gulf economies: mindful of that youth bulge, Riyadh is imposing a "Saudi-ization" program that requires businesses to hire more locals. It doesn't help that employers don't have access to half the potential workforce: despite...
...future, when U.S. companies will be competing not only with European, Japanese, South Korean and Chinese companies but also with highly competitive companies from every corner of the world: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Egypt, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Poland, Russia, Thailand, Turkey, Vietnam and places you'd never expect. And you can anticipate that future versions of the World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Index will be reflecting more rapid ascents and descents than it has in the past. The current financial crisis may only serve to speed up the process...
Coleman: I would argue that voters expect temperament to matter more now. And that you could trace back to the compressed timelines for decisions now and look at the nuclear age, the push-button age ... There is a reason now that the whole 3 a.m. phone-call test resonates...