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After the repeal of Prohibition in 1933, the Federal Government changed the rules to permit every household with two adults in residence to make 200 gallons of wine or beer a year. While that sanctioned the work of immigrant winemakers--often Italians and Greeks trying to maintain a liquid connection to the land and traditions they left behind--the amateur vintners usually relied on rustic equipment and grapes they grew in their backyards. Today's garagistes (French for the home enthusiasts who make vintages where they used to park their cars) have gone upscale, using modern equipment, better grapes...
...ethics subcommittee. For Republicans looking for a life preserver, it was just that. But the note, as well as press reports that the subcommittee had already decided on a reprimand for Gingrich, led investigator Cole to issue an angry statement reminding everyone that "the ethics rules do not permit public comment on the work of the committee until we are convened in an open session." All the same, Schiff insists he did nothing improper. "The letter may be unusual, but so is the situation," he says. "There was a vote coming up for the speakership...
...foot high concrete and wood wall, called a Jersey Barrier, will be erected in the middle of Cowperthwaite Street. The construction project is scheduled to last through the spring of 2007. Last month, City Manager Robert W. Healy declined Harvard’s request to extend its permit allowing construction trucks to use nearby Grant Street, after neighborhood residents successfully petitioned to have truck traffic limited to Cowperthwaite Street. According to Greenfield, Healy originally proposed a Jersey Barrier extending along all of Cowperthwaite Street. But under that plan, Greenfield said, “there would no pedestrian traffic...
...generation,” Dershowitz said. “We simply cannot accept a standard which tells us we must compromise our morality in the interests of money.”The 1994 Solomon Amendment allows the Secretary of Defense to bar federal funding from universities that do not permit military recruiters on their campuses. Representatives from the Judge Advocate General’s Corps of the U.S. Army were scheduled to hold an information session on campus yesterday.Jeffrey G. Paik ’03, president of Lambda, the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender student group that organized the event...
BETHANY DILLON celebrates two milestones this fall; she sings on the sound tracks of two major movies and gets her driver's permit. Dillon, 16, who wrote songs for Dreamer, starring Dakota Fanning, and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, picked up the guitar at 10 and a record contract at 13 when a producer heard a CD she cut at home in Ohio. The Christian singer remains unaffected. "I come home from touring, and my parents are like, 'Hey, Beth, how was it? Can you unload the dishwasher...