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...store and online sales after reading Wine Spectator and figuring out that some people collect wines just like he collected baseball cards. In 1994, when the magazine named Caymus Special Selection Cabernet Sauvignon the wine of the year, he persuaded his dad to let him buy a whole mess of it and sell it at cost. "I'm beating everyone else by 40%," he recalls. "Because everybody else wants to buy a boat. I want to be famous." He gambled on a full-page ad in the New York Times, changed the name of the store to Wine Library...
...committee, is expected to take a hard-line approach. Many Democrats view him as a particularly combative foe who could push for a standoff after Congress sends its spending bills to the President's desk. "They've put the guy in charge who is the Congressional architect of this mess," says Rep. Obey of Nussle. "To me that is a recipe for confrontation...
...population of 300 million, the Lifesharers membership is tiny, and so far no member of the group has received an organ from another member. But Undis believes that as a proof of principle, Lifesharers shows how to fix the donor mess. If UNOS demanded what Lifesharers does and patients were required to register before they fell ill, he believes, the nation could essentially eliminate its organ shortage within three years. "It's a fair trade," he says. "I'll give you mine if you give me yours...
...Mess with one bean, you get the whole burrito," one posted...
...Politicians are tapping into the public's uncertainty. In the June 5 G.O.P. debate, Rudy Giuliani summed up the bill's problem this way: "It's a typical Washington mess," he said. He's right, of course, but not for the reasons he thinks. Rather, the bill is a mess because it doesn't fully embrace its most important aim: amnesty. Instead, it is laden with punitive measures - designed to evoke a certain toughness - that will at most just keep illegals from participating. Amnesty, as defined by its opponents, has come to mean getting forgiveness for free. But under...