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...Early Season Chardonnay--a de-alcoholized concoction selling for about $10 a bottle, aimed at women who are counting calories. In this case, it's what's inside the bottle that is "downright offensive," says Ewing-Mulligan, who in 1993 was the first U.S. woman to earn a Master of Wine degree. White Lie has more in common with Diet Coke than with white Burgundy...
...What lifts Boone from his paddock in northern New South Wales is the angelic figure of Marlene in her Manolo Blahniks. The daughter-in-law of Leibovitz, a Picasso-like modern master, she has come to value a work that has miraculously found its way into the hands of Boone's neighbor. But nothing is what it seems: Manhattan-accented Marlene is in fact a trucker's daughter from Benalla, in Victoria's Ned Kelly country, and the painting's contested authenticity will drag the smitten Boone and his "gorgeous thief" all the way to New York via Tokyo. Supplying...
...Diego every weekday, and Nickelodeon is counting on them to make his merchandise--Diego toys by Fisher-Price will be out in June; clothes and books by fall--just as popular. "He's bilingual, and he has a sense of adventure," says Nickelodeon president Cyma Zarghami. Nickelodeon is a master at milking hot properties. Retail sales of Nick-related products--from Dora backpacks to SpongeBob Band-Aids--topped $5 billion last year. Will Diego be the next big thing in kiddie cool? Nickelodeon hopes it runs in the family...
...oval conference table that puts her on a par with colleagues. She prefers visiting staff to summoning them to her office. And while she can be stilted in media interviews, she is hooked on text messaging, requiring even the most tech-reluctant older members of her Cabinet to master the art. Staffers are expected to make bullet presentations to her via sms: short and to the point. "It's the best, sometimes the only, way to reach her," says an aide. So what text messages should her colleagues, coalition partners and electorate be sending? "Well done," for a start...
...Furthermore, Silverstein and Pataki never completely saw eye to eye on the master plan, disagreeing on such issues as the choice of architect. The architect Daniel Libeskind, whom Pataki favored, won the commission to plan the entire site and design the Freedom Tower. But Silverstein came forward with his own architect, David Childs. The current design for the tower is the result of a forced marriage of Libeskind and Child's ideas...