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...those taste-alike chardonnays? Riesling (pronounced reezling) is the antidote. The true riesling (a.k.a. Johannisberg Riesling) has its origins in Germany, but it can now be found all over the world and is developing cult status among growers and drinkers. A 1999 Riesling Single Berry Select made by Ernst Loosen and Chateau Ste. Michelle of Washington State in the U.S. has been awarded 97 points by the Wine Spectator, the highest-ever rating for an American white...
...looking forward to dinner with her husband to celebrate her 44th birthday. "She called that day and told us Ken had a big surprise for her. She sounded hopeful," says Dubay. Oppy loved her work as an optometrist, was popular with the patients, even getting the cranky ones to loosen up and laugh with her. The one person she couldn't get through to was her husband, whose affairs saddened and angered her at the same time. She had considered divorce, but in the end, she held on, hoping Stahl would change. She had even taken several weeks off that...
...away in their neoclassical palace, the nine Justices are perceived as being above the fray and primly cut off from everyday life. (Which is why, reportedly, former Washington Redskins fullback John Riggins once accosted Sandra Day O'Connor at a Washington dinner party and urged, "Come on, Sandy baby, loosen up.") But during this case, it became clear that the Justices are not as insulated as we like to believe. Clarence Thomas' wife draws a paycheck from the conservative Heritage Foundation, where she has been vetting resumes for positions in a Bush Administration--an Administration her husband's vote helped...
...Anything recession-esque that happens this spring will be Bush's mandate to loosen things up a little. Any complaints Bush had about the Clinton years look practically prescient now, and unlike Gore he'll be free to find further fault if he needs excuses. And he won't get the blame unless it lasts all year...
...among its own NATO allies in the diplomatic battle over U.S. plans for a missile defense system. Since then, he's managed, quite improbably, to revive a role for Moscow in the Middle East peace process, and has helped lead a growing number of European and Arab countries to loosen sanctions against Iraq in defiance of Washington's wishes. But Putin's most dramatic challenge yet to the U.S. comes Friday, when Russia unilaterally withdraws from an agreement brokered by Vice President Al Gore committing Moscow to refrain from selling arms to Iran...