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Brilliant will stick around to see the outcome, even now that Weis has taken over the CEO role. "I'm on the board of directors," Brilliant says. "They can't get rid of me." After all, there's still one more mountain to climb. --With reporting by Leslie Berestein/Los Angeles, Joshua Macht/New York, Laura A. Locke/San Francisco and Donald Macintyre/Seoul
...process today is automated. Most of what those kura produce is sake of regular grade, often sold in paper cartons and best served hot. Its low quality may account for falling sales. Some breweries, including many in Kobe's Nada ward--sake central for centuries because of its pure mountain-spring water--are trying to reach younger drinkers with products like low-alcohol, low-calorie sake, while also appealing to Japanese nostalgia by encouraging visits. Hakutsuru, the No. 1 brewery, has preserved its 1743 kura as a museum to showcase ancient sakemaking methods...
...transferred to him," says Egoyan. "I understood that I wanted to talk about how this trauma lives on today." So Egoyan decided to make a movie - and cast in the title role a potent symbol: Ararat. Physically, Mount Ararat is located in western Turkey. Symbolically, the twin-peaked mountain dominates the geography of the Armenian soul. It represents eternal Armenia - its history, political identity and religious traditions dating back to the biblical Flood. Egoyan, 43, who was born in Cairo to Armenian parents, says "the film's structure reflects the Armenian psyche." That psyche is riven by dual realities...
Thomas Merton, who accomplished the only-in-America oxymoronic feat of becoming a celebrity Trappist monk (his memoir, The Seven Storey Mountain, was a best seller in 1948), fathered a child out of wedlock before taking his vows; later, as a middle-aged hermit with a taste for bourbon, he had a brief love affair with a nurse. Walker Percy drank too much. Poor Flannery O'Connor, crippled by lupus, dead at 39, sometimes sounded alarmingly like a racial bigot...
...Increasingly, high-end tour operators are finding ways to smooth some of the Mongolia experience's rough edges. 4th World has built modernist wooden lodges at Lake Hovsgol, where guests spending about $100 a day can hike and mountain bike and then unwind with some imported wine, barbecued local mutton and a dip in a hot tub powered by a wood fire. Nomadic Expeditions has built a lodge in the Gobi Desert. And while there's really no way to catch the feel of Mongolia's big sky other than by driving for days beneath it, Nomadic Expeditions offers...