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...Jean-Paul Sartre, the giant of postwar French letters, wrote in 1946 to thank the U.S. for Hemingway, Faulkner and other writers who were then influencing French fiction - but whom Americans were starting to take for granted. "We shall give back to you these techniques which you have lent us," he promised. "We shall return them digested, intellectualized, less effective, and less brutal - consciously adapted to French taste. Because of this incessant exchange, which makes nations rediscover in other nations what they have invented first and then rejected, perhaps you will rediscover in these new [French] books the eternal youth...
...critics, including liberals who have allied with Obama on other issues, say any solvency crisis could be decades away. They accuse Obama of buying into the dire scenarios with which the Bush Administration tried--unsuccessfully--to partially privatize the system. New York Times columnist Paul Krugman went so far as to write that Obama had been "played for a fool." Adds a Clinton strategist: "This whole conversation is bewildering. Every Democrat in America has spent the past several years arguing that Social Security is not in a crisis...
...campaign issue, Social Security has a treacherous history. The last time it figured in any substantial way in a Democratic presidential primary was back in 1992. Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton seized on a single passage in Massachusetts Senator Paul Tsongas' campaign literature in which Tsongas floated the idea of holding down cost-of-living adjustments for entitlement programs. Bill Clinton declared that the idea proved Tsongas was an enemy of Social Security. He hammered that misleading charge in a barrage of negative ads and clinched the Democratic nomination. Candor in politics can carry a big price...
Sake buyer Paul Tanguay says more information in English on the label is key to U.S. sales. And he's one to be heard. Having worked with every distributor in the U.S. while he was the beverage director of Sushi Samba restaurants nationwide, Tanguay is a formidable player in the popularization of the drink and imported sake's upward trajectory. "So much of what goes into developing brands in this business is distribution," says Sidel. "This is true of management of any luxury good or product--who is buying it, who is drinking it--and that is determined by distribution...
Tanguay plans to continue educating sake drinkers as Vine Connections' national sake ambassador. "Paul will add significantly more bandwidth," says Lehrman. "He brings a lot of experience from the buyer's side." Tanguay says growth in sake consumption may not be evident in places like New York City, but it's definitely heading inland from the coasts...