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...ros?. The wine is best enjoyed young, and flavors range from strawberries and cream to slightly spritzy. First-timers should try the can't-go-wrong bottlings from France's Provence and Languedoc regions, especially the latter. There's also Spanish rosado and Australia's wonderful Turkey Flat. Serve chilled and take no flak: wine snobs have no idea what they're missing...
...moment in early December, Donald Rumsfeld took the point in the hunt for Saddam Hussein. Leading a convoy of unmarked SUVs through the broad, flat streets of Kirkuk, he heads for an outpost of the 4th Infantry Division, which has been rolling up resisters in the most dangerous swath of Iraq, running north and west of Baghdad. Rumsfeld is warm and engaging as he enters the makeshift U.S. Army headquarters--hailing soldiers, shaking hands, working the room like the old Chicago pol he is. But after a few minutes his face darkens, and the more notorious Rumsfeld emerges. Sitting...
Schermerhorn sped away, the humvee's flat tire flapping crazily. Whiteside climbed out of the turret and began trying to resuscitate the lieutenant. Colgan made a gurgling sound. He has a wife and kids, Whiteside thought. We've got to keep him alive. Buxton grabbed the radio handset. "This is Tomb Raider 6-3 Delta," he said. "Lieutenant Colgan is down...
...your stocks during the bear market, no doubt it's time to suit up again. This recovery is real. But it's far too late to pile in indiscriminately. Tobias Levkovich, a U.S.-market strategist at Smith Barney, figures the major stock averages will end the coming year flat or slightly lower as investors wait for the economy to catch up with stock prices. That's no sure thing, given that the stimulative effect of lower taxes and falling interest rates will run its course early...
...another year. How did I get from that to the way so many of us feel now--relief that it's over, emotionally spent after meeting our holiday-preparation deadlines? Maybe it is as simple as putting faith in an old story instead of the circulars that offer a flat-screen Christmas. Maybe it's just a door in our imagination that needs to be pried open again. I'll take the image of a snowy night, and children too excited to sleep, and the possibility that magical things can happen...