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...Russians. What was truly surprising was that the matter exploded. For that, credit is due to Jacques Rogge, the new president of the International Olympic Committee. It was Rogge who pressed on Cinquanta the idea to award a second set of gold medals to Sale and Pelletier--a notion suggested to him by Richard Pound, a Canadian member of the I.O.C. Rogge's joint press conference with Cinquanta was a diplomatic measure, allowing Cinquanta to say that the second gold was his idea. "It was the most graceful way of handling it," says Pound...
Blame it on the French. More than any other people, they have promoted the notion that the taste of a food is inextricably bound to the place where it is grown. As early as the 1920s, France's winemakers were restricting use of the term Bordeaux to wines produced in that area. In 1974 they engineered an international treaty that declared that only bubbly from the Champagne region could be labeled champagne, forcing other producers of sparkling wines (including vintners in Champagne, Switzerland) to scramble for synonyms like methode champagnoise...
Blame it on the French. More than any other people, they have promoted the notion that the taste of a food is inextricably bound to the place where it is grown. As early as the 1920s, France's winemakers were restricting use of the term Bordeaux to wines produced in that area. In 1974 they engineered an international treaty that declared that only bubbly from the Champagne region could be labeled champagne, forcing other producers of sparkling wines (including vintners in Champagne, Switzerland) to scramble for synonyms like mEthode champagnoise...
...weapons and adapt their war-fighting doctrines accordingly. As Europe's capabilities atrophy, dependence on America to do the dirty work will deepen. But dependence breeds resentment on both sides, and already in Europe voices can be heard decrying America's go-it-alone interventionism. Across the Atlantic the notion of a feckless Europe unable and unwilling to share the security burden is taking hold. Europe talks loudly, it seems, but carries a very small stick...
...already achieved demi-god status among in the burgeoning rock and roll scene of the late ’60s when he suffocated on his own vomit in 1969. Hendrix hasn’t been alive for over 30 years, although some fans may take solace in the notion that he lives on proverbially in the incalculable influence of his work on all subsequent rock guitarists. It seems, however, every time one visits a record store, there is a new “Greatest Hits” or “live” compilation, perhaps with...