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French wine couldn't be considered a smart investment at the time. Sales had been shrinking for years, and by 2003 Americans were asking for freedom fries--hold the steak au poivre. But Joe devoted Gallo's huge resources to the challenge. First, the Modesto, Calif., company found a French partner--wine cooperative Sieur d'Arques, in the southern Languedoc area, the region that produces much of France's lower-priced vin ordinaire. Sieur would harvest the grapes and make the wine; Gallo would handle marketing and distribution. Then, after sending a crew of Gallo researchers and Grey Advertising executives...
...aftermath of 9/11, Americans found themselves wondering how people could despise the American way of life, the pursuit of freedom and liberty that we enjoy. Many Americans found answers in the roots of American hegemony and the foreign policy objectives that supported this dominion. However, it became quite clear that, in the eyes of the in-party, questioning the vagaries of American foreign policy was against the very fabric of American values. If one disagreed with the Bush Doctrine then one was anti-American...
...against us” rhetoric is nothing new in the upper echelons of the Republican Party. Playing the faith card in order to galvanize against a legislative privilege, however, represents a new perversion of our political leaders. Students should be concerned, not only because it threatens our freedom to dissent and operate freely in a secular academic sphere, but because it threatens to shepherd judges into power who will influence our lives and narrow our freedoms as individual Americans long after Dr. Frist has been replaced in Washington...
That in turn prompted howls of outrage from academics who have been trying for years to get the food and restaurant industries to serve healthier meals. "The Center for Consumer Freedom is to industry what hit men are to the Mafia," said Yale psychologist Kelly Brownell, an obesity expert and frequent target of the CCF. He points out that the group is funded in large part by restaurants and food companies and run by Richard Berman, a public relations expert who made his reputation defending the tobacco industry...
...Experimental travel gives a fantastic sensation of freedom and the possibility of loving places generally considered to be mundane," says Henry. Unsurprisingly, he cites the Dada movement and surrealism among his influences. For those of us bored with a world reduced to chain hotels and increasingly identical town centers, a hefty dose of the ridiculous will go down very nicely, thank...