Word: napoleonic
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...leader of the Dutch East India Co.'s settlement at the Cape of Good Hope. His words were written just five years after European vines were first planted at the southernmost tip of Africa. By the 18th century, South African Muscats were being served in Europe's royal houses; Napoleon drank a bottle a day during his exile on St. Helena. Jane Austen prescribed Cape Constantia wine for the brokenhearted Marianne in Sense and Sensibility. Though listed as products of the New World, Cape wines are being rediscovered today as modern extensions of a historic Old World legacy...
However Mike Tyson felt as his face hit the canvas against Buster Douglas, however the 1954 Yankees felt once the Indians clinched the American League title, however Napoleon surely felt after failing to take Moscow, the members of the Harvard women's basketball team must have felt last Saturday night...
There are many ways to respond to a setback. While Napoleon's loss may have been the beginning of the end for him, and while Tyson went on to bite Evander Holyfield's ear off--among other inauspicious acts--the Yankees won the next two American League pennants...
THAILAND "Great leaders are very good at sex: Cleopatra, Genghis Khan, Napoleon, Mao Zedong. Clinton is also a capable leader, so it is normal for him to be very good at sex." --A government spokesman...
...months and a day until you can see "The Longest Day" on TV (and don't miss it). But in the dead of winter, the misfortunes of war must move to warmer climes. Just ask Napoleon. And Sunday, somewhere amid the football, is Pearl Harbor...