Word: listes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Kerry, of course, had picked Obama to deliver the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic Convention - the speech that launched Obama into superstardom. Kerry decided to endorse Obama in late 2007 and went public in early 2008. After Obama won, Kerry spent several weeks on the short list to be his Secretary of State - a job that ultimately went to Hillary Clinton...
...safe bet that Kennedy's memoir will soar to the top of the best-seller list, though in the wake of his death his political aides are considering how best to handle its marketing - with his family in mourning, they may turn to his Senate colleagues to give interviews about the book. Three other recent books about Kennedy - Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy, edited by Peter Canellos (Simon & Schuster); Ted Kennedy: The Dream That Never Died by Edward Klein (Crown); and Ted Kennedy: Scenes from an Epic Life by the Boston Globe (Simon & Schuster) are also...
Africa's wine once had a reputation to rival Europe's. In the 19th century, vin de Constance, a Cape Town dessert wine, was the A-list tipple of its day, served to Napoleon on his deathbed and celebrated in print by Charles Dickens and Jane Austen. But before the end of apartheid in 1994, white-only rule and a system of paying black workers in highly alcoholic runoff had left a pronounced sour taste in international markets. Postapartheid, South African wine has reformed - there are growing numbers of black customers and vintners - but its quality has come under fresh...
...varietal, year or even South Africa, appearing in wines from other countries too. And the answer to how South Africa can produce some of the world's best and most keenly priced wines but still catch flak internationally is obvious to anyone who has compared a thousand-bottle wine list in Cape Town to the tiny shelf of cheap table wine labeled South African in their local store. "We export the crud," says a manager at a leading Cape Winelands exporter, requesting anonymity...
...whole new society. Many of these guys are fat cats who never had to worry about anything. They really have to adapt quickly, because there are so many people to piss off and so many things you can do wrong. If you wind up doing something on the "No" list, it can make your time - whether it's 16 months or 16 days - a living hell. (Read a brief history of prison riots...