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...Fans insist that there's nothing faddish about those wines. Joe Dressner, a New York City--based importer specializing in natural wines (or, as he likes to call them, "real wines"), says people buy his wines because they like what is in the bottle. "It's a sensory preference, which prefers nature to technology. This is not about being a purist. We simply feel the wines taste better...
...Stephen Colbert Funny? If you didn't laugh at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, the bloggers insist, you're a White House lackey...
...Saturday Night Live. And finally you would not expect that network to debut a second show about a sketch-comedy series. (Tina Fey's comedy within a comedy, 30 Rock, debuts in October.) But when you're in fourth place, you'll try anything--twice--and NBC and producers insist that Studio 60 is about not SNL but a fictional lame sketch show. Studio 60 is from West Wing producers Aaron Sorkin and Thomas Schlamme, and the show's style is West Coast Wing: the same banter, high-pressure setting and speechiness. But Hollywood-insider stories are a notoriously tough...
...schools insist they are open to all. At Harvard, families that earn less than $40,000 a year don't have to contribute a penny to their kids' education; Yale and Stanford do the same for families making $45,000 or less. But for middle- and upper-middle-class families, the sticker shock at an élite university can be overwhelming. And the recent interest-rate hike of almost 2% on government-backed loans only increases the distress...
...until the foreign force arrives - and the delay lies not simply in assembling volunteers, but in getting Hizballah to agree to a truce, which many prospective troop contributors insist is a precondition for deployment - Israel's leaders must decide just how far into Lebanon Sgt. Yoshua's tank should roll...