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...Porto are run by three big companies from both nations. Sogrape owns several old vintners like Ferreira and Sandeman. Real Companhia Velha makes Royal Oporto. British giant Symington remains family owned. Indeed, some of the wine's most passionate defenders have come from Britain. In 1831 a young Englishman, Joseph James Forrester, came to Porto, learned Portuguese, mapped the Douro region, wrote treatises on grape growing and exhorted the wine growers to stop adulterating their wines with sugar, elderberry and brandy. That legacy lives on in the large, dark, cool cave of Graham's, part of the Symington group...
...Geneva-based International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Associations (IFPMA), trafficking in counterfeit medicines is a $3 billion-$6 billion industry-and as the price of genuine drugs continues to climb, some say the problem is bound to increase, too. "It's absolutely way worse than reported," says Joseph Simone, a partner at law firm Baker & McKenzie in Hong Kong and vice chairman of China's Quality Brands Protection Committee (QBPC), an anticounterfeiting business group...
...Winston Churchill famously said, "you can always rely on America to do the right thing--once it has exhausted the alternatives." Churchill and F.D.R. loathed free French leader Charles de Gaulle, and he loathed them in return. Wartime politicians and officials had volcanic fights about how to handle Joseph Stalin, whether to turn postwar Germany into an agricultural backwater, and whether to put the atom bomb under international control. And things weren't always warm and fuzzy during the cold war either. In 1966 de Gaulle quit the NATO command and kicked out U.S. Troops. It took five years...
...gift of time by standing steadfast against the Nazi juggernaut in the Battle of Britain and the Blitz in 1940 and 1941. Thereafter, the U.S. had time in copious abundance, thanks mostly to the skill and cunning of F.D.R.--including, especially, his wily management of relations with Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, whose much abused people were plunged into unspeakable woe by the German invasion of June...
...qualified to expose Mafia secrets as Brasco and Hill. Brasco is the nom de mob for undercover FBI agent Joseph Pistone, whose 1988 autobiography became a movie starring Johnny Depp; Hill's story was first penned by author Nicholas Pileggi in 1985, then made into GoodFellas by Martin Scorsese. Both turned on la famiglia--Brasco ratted out the Bonannos; Hill, the Luccheses--and both have been keeping a lower profile ever since...