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After a hard day in court, Rumpole repairs to Pommeroy's wine bar where he knocks back several glasses of "Chateau Thames Embankment." It's modeled on the El Vino wine bar, www.elvino.co.uk, at the bottom of Fetter Lane, off Fleet Street (although there are four other branches). The bar in fact boasts a distinguished wine list - absolutely no "cooking claret" - and traditional food such as steak-and-kidney pie. Flashes of inspiration occasionally strike Rumpole in these convivial surroundings, but more often than not he returns home to Gloucester Road and discusses the mysteries of his current case with...
Corruption did exist under Gorbachev; after Gorbachev it blossomed with new fervor. Oppressive poverty did exist under Gorbachev; after Gorbachev it reached the level of starvation. Under Gorbachev the system of residence permits did fetter the population; after Gorbachev hundreds upon hundreds of thousands lost their property and the roofs over their heads and set off across the country seeking refuge from people as angry and hungry as they were...
...unlicensed" merchandise, nor was there any effort to check for health violations in the Hibachis framed in blue tapestries on an rickety table. No one was getting rich, they were just getting to the next show and feeding and clothing fellow humans in the process. Unrestrained capitalism, without fetter or regulation turns ugly when loosed upon industrial production...
...Fetter, a columnist from the Boston Globe, compared Saddam Hussein to the German Kaiser and to Hitler, saying that just as the United States had intervened in the two world wars even though its territory had not been directly threatened, it should also stand in defense of Kuwait today...
...Stanford University Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jean H. Fetter after hearing comments Harvard admissions officers wrote on application folders of Asian-American students. The comments were drawn from an Education Department report obtained by The Crimson under the Freedom of Information...