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...five-seat majority. But she fumbled consistently. She seemed to confuse Chief Justices Earl Warren and Warren Burger in a meeting with Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont. She left Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania with the impression that she supported the privacy rights in the 1965 Griswold decision. Then she corrected him. In an unprecedented move, she was basically told to redo her questionnaire for the Senate Judiciary Committee. Senators who met her emerged more and not less doubtful of her abilities...
...these people are interested in that." Then, after a meeting last week in which Specter tried to walk Miers through traps she might encounter at her hearing, he spoke well of her to reporters. But she later phoned him and contradicted his recollection that she had expressed support for Griswold v. Connecticut, the 1965 case establishing the right to privacy that is considered a key underpinning of abortion rights. Strike two was Miers' response to the Judiciary Committee's questionnaire, which led to an unusual request for elaboration on eight of her 28 answers. Even Republicans griped that her responses...
...subsistence living in a world where coffee is abundant. The solution was to go upmarket and try to make Rwanda more famous for fabulous coffee than for murder. Rwanda has the ideal climate for growing quality beans, and its coffee has "notes of fruit and pecan," says David Griswold, president of Sustainable Harvest, a coffee importer. "It has a taste you can't find anywhere else in the world." Getting that unique taste to market required a new approach. So Clay - with Texas A&M professor Tim Schilling; Emile Rwamasirabo, then rector of the National University of Rwanda; and aided...
...solution was to go upmarket and try to make Rwanda more famous for fabulous coffee than for murder. Rwanda has the ideal climate for growing quality beans, and its coffee has "notes of fruit and pecan," says David Griswold, president of Sustainable Harvest, a coffee importer. "It has a taste you can't find anywhere else in the world...
Ironically, Rwandans don't traditionally drink coffee. So importer Griswold took his customers to Rwanda to brew coffee with the farmers, showing them exactly the kind of taste and consistent quality the market is looking for. The farmers were taught to detect notes of blackberry, the consequences of improperly processing beans, and how coffee is graded...