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...wineloverspage.com Started in 1994 by Robin Garr, a journalist based in Louisville, Ky., with a focus on value wines, this site has grown into a mini-empire and a meeting place for wine aficionados of every palate. Today it boasts 19 columnists who strive to inform readers at all levels, from novice to expert oenophile. A highlight is Garr's 30-Second Wine Advisor e-mail bulletin, which delivers wine recommendations three times a week to subscribers free of charge...
...flex their muscles. Labor chairman Edward Kennedy wants to write a "clean" bill raising the minimum wage, but Reid doubts it could pass without including tax breaks for business that Republicans are demanding. Even Reid's freshmen are uppity. When he called Virginia's Senator Jim Webb to inform him of his committee assignments--the standard backwater spots that junior members are usually consigned to--Webb demanded "A" assignments on both Armed Services and Foreign Relations. Since Webb's surprise victory gave Reid his majority, Webb got what he wanted...
...purpose that this would serve is to better inform professors’ hiring decisions when it comes to recruiting top TFs for their courses. Often, the shoddiest TFs are those that are hired at the last minute, when course enrolment exceeds what professors had anticipated. Pre-registration would diminish the need for faculty members to guess the number of students they’ll attract and the number of TFs they’ll require, and would lead to significant improvements in the quality of the instructors that wind up teaching undergraduate sections. By making the process formal...
...Some critics in Congress and the Administration say that such a plan, meant to secretly influence a foreign government, should be legally deemed a "covert action," which by law would then require that the White House inform the intelligence committees on Capitol Hill. Some in Congress would undoubtedly raise objections to this secret use of publicly appropriated funds to promote democracy...
...mullahs? Hardly. The ruling of the Court of the First Instance, the second-highest court overseeing the laws of the European Union, was largely procedural. It found that when the E.U. put the MEK on its list of terrorist organizations in 2002, it should have informed the organization about the basis for that action. The court acknowledged that the European Union is not obliged to inform a possible terrorist organization before its assets are frozen - "It must be able to benefit from a surprise effect," stated the court - but that the group should be granted access to the reasons...