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Like generations of farmers before them, Ralph Erenzo and Brian Lee keep a still at their Hudson Valley granary and use it to concoct a corn bourbon with a smooth creamy flavor and sweet grainy aroma that would make any moonshiner proud. But what Erenzo and Lee are making isn't the illegal stuff of mountain legend and bootlegger capers; instead it's high-class hooch that is totally legal and helping lead a renaissance of handcrafted artisanal American spirits...
...depths of Kibera, where few outsiders dare to visit, charred barricades of trash and tires still litter the streets, and wrecks of cars now block the railroad tracks made famous in The Constant Gardener, the Ralph Fiennes movie that was filmed there in 2004. The damage to the area has been so bad that it is impossible to find water to drink or even a bottle of Coca Cola to purchase. Despite their support of Odinga, some residents wonder whether their rage was worthwhile...
...country anymore," says Elliot Lifson, vice chairman of Montreal-based Peerless Clothing, which has outsourced 70% of its production to plants in China, India and Vietnam over the past three years. Once the loonie passed 80˘, the $500 million company, which has exclusive licensing agreements with top designers, including Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein and Michael Kors, exporting to the U.S. became problematic. "Our margins would have been eaten up," says Lifson. Peerless continues to make its most expensive garments at a Montreal plant that employs 2,000 because of its proximity to the company's main distribution center...
...Even Giuliani, the national front-runner - a title that normally means something in a G.O.P. race but this year is the equivalent of "honorary chairman" - is slumping in polls. Republicans have no experience with chaos like this, except in history books. "It is without a doubt," says G.O.P. strategist Ralph Reed, "the most unpredictable roller-coaster ride we've seen in a Republican primary since the rise of the primary in the 1960s." Party-history buff Newt Gingrich went further: he called the G.O.P. contest the most wide-open race the party has held since 1940 - the year Wendell Willkie...
...heart of the Fabulous Five--the storied University of Kentucky basketball team that won two consecutive NCAA championships in the late '40s--was speedy three-time All-American Ralph Beard. The point guard, who helped the U.S. win gold at the 1948 Olympics, was playing in the pros three years later when officials accused him and others of having taken bribes to influence Kentucky games. That betting scandal--the biggest in college-basketball history--got him ejected from the NBA for life. Beard, who admitted taking $700 from gamblers but insisted he never shaved points, said, "It will be with...