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...hand, including Bordeaux's prestigious reds and sweet Sauternes, but also dry whites, rosés and sparkling wines. Châteaus up and down the Garonne will be open for vineyard tours. Classical, popular and world-music concerts every evening will further intoxicate the senses. An exhibition, "Passion for Art, Passion for Wine," will draw from private collections around Bordeaux and include works by Pablo Picasso, Niki de Saint-Phalle and Bernard Pagès. Visitors thus get a chance to both taste and see how wine producers and art collectors like Château Mouton Rothschild's Philippe...
...March, which won the Pulitzer Prize, Brooks liberates him from obscurity and follows him as he wanders a country divided by racism and blasted by atrocity. March could easily have come off as a preachy pill, but Brooks plays him as a paradox--an intellectual buffeted by passion, a man of faith bedeviled by doubt. He is constantly confronted with moral dilemmas that he can only bluff his way through. But he's aptly named: the deeper March sinks into the mire, the more determined he is to keep marching homeward...
...Great Transcontinental Rail Journey was the perfect trip for Allan Geddes, 76. Geddes and his late wife Shirley had always done things "top of the line," according to their son John, 49, a glass designer in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. What's more, railroading had always been Allan's passion, from putting together the tabletop track and cars John played with as a boy to accumulating a wealth of big-engine lore. On a 10-day rail tour from Los Angeles to Savannah, Ga., which included stops at the Grand Canyon and New Orleans, father and son occupied separate mahogany...
...still the way people respond to her. There's a scene in a documentary about Coulter in which a young woman, sputtering with rage, gets in Coulter's face and shouts an obscenity with such force it was chilling, even on tape. Anyone who can inspire that kind of passion is surely worth writing about again...
...with the question-and-answer sessions he held at each residential house, his meetings with Crimson reporters, and various other interactions with students. His questions about what I and my peers thought of various aspects of Harvard demonstrated a tremendous thirst for understanding of the undergraduate experience and a passionate desire to fix what he saw as a subpar education. And then there was his dedication. When I first found out Larry would be my adviser, I expected that he, like many other freshman advisers, would barely do more than sign my study card, particularly because of his busy schedule...