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...merged Seagram, based in Montreal, would also shed some assets, bidding adieu to its wine and liquor empire, which features brands like Captain Morgan rum and Chivas Regal Scotch and could fetch anywhere from $5 billion to $10 billion. Bottled spirits are much too ancien regime--and besides, you can't download rum. The likely buyer: Britain's Allied Domecq...
...proceeds to buy Universal. It didn't help that DuPont stock promptly doubled, as Seagram's own shares sparkled less than flat Champagne. Yet Bronfman stubbornly stuck to his show-biz guns. He shelled out $10.4 billion for Polygram music in 1998, making his family's 76-year-old liquor business look like a sidelight. Bronfman has since been shopping his empire to the usual mogul suspects: Viacom CEO Sumner Redstone and News Corp. founder Rupert Murdoch, among others...
...drink they serve in New Orleans is called cafe brulot: coffee mixed with spices and liquor, served flaming. Add a beignet, and you've got the culinary equivalent of the music of the New Orleans-based band Galactic: a brew of deep funk, acid jazz and stomping rock, with a bit of sugar-sweet melody. Not all the songs on Late for the Future work: a fair number lack rhythmic complexity, and these tracks wash out of the listener's mind quickly. But Galactic is a jam band that revels in the moment. The best songs on this album feel...
Harvard tried to rein in the festivities, outlawing Commencement dancing in 1760 and cracking down on alcohol (especially the troublesome liquor-soaked "plumb cakes...
LOUIS FREEH Oops. Government investigators get into your FBI HQ with fake IDs. Even liquor stores card better...