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...setting behind Château Pontet-Canet as Alfred Tesseron finishes his tour of the property, perched above the legendary Bordeaux wine village of Pauillac. He has talked proudly about how his father bought the château 30 years ago, but points out some of his recent investments: a water-recycling system, the new storage and bottling barn, and the twin rows of conical fermentation vats. Now comes the moment of truth...
...that the mother of two might adopt a child, her response was a coy "Never say never." That's pop-star speak for "Very soon." A judge in Malawi last week approved her bid to take home a motherless 1-year-old, a move applauded by the boy's father. But local rights groups still objected. Apparently Madge's efforts to raise millions of dollars to help the sub-Saharan country's 900,000 or so orphans doesn't change the fact that she's no Angelina Jolie...
...people--ebony, ivory or other--who have Obama's distinctive portfolio of talents, or what he calls his "exotic" family history. His parentage was the first thing he chose to tell us about himself when he delivered his knockout keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention in 2004: his father was from Kenya and his mother from Kansas. He told the story in brilliant, painful detail in his first book, Dreams from My Father, which may be the best-written memoir ever produced by an American politician. His parents met at the University of Hawaii and stayed together only briefly...
Yikes. But then Obama is nothing if not candid about his uncertainties and imperfections. In Dreams from My Father, which was written before he became a politician, he admits to cocaine and marijuana use and also to attending socialist meetings. In The Audacity of Hope, I counted 28 impolitic or self-deprecating admissions. Immediately, on page 3, he admits to political "restlessness," which is another way of saying he's ambitious. He flays himself for enjoying private jets, which eliminate the cramped frustrations of commercial flying but--on the other hand!--isolate him from the problems of average folks...
...look at Bernstein’s music with the utmost attention to detail and musicianship. All of the performers were clothed entirely in black; the stage was lit minimally to create a focused environment. Bernstein’s three children took the stage to offer some words about their father and the music in the show. Unfortunately, the trio often resorted to campy shtick and poorly written jokes to try to loosen up the crowd, instead of giving a real impression of what it was like to be Bernstein’s child. By the time the three were listing...