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...hint at any parallels between her jail sentence and Mandela's ordeal. Her upcoming prison time has nothing at all to do with the 27 years Mandela spent locked up under inhumane conditions. Stewart is going to prison because she lied about a transaction aimed at making her even richer. Mandela risked his life and was imprisoned because he fought against apartheid. To make any comparison is insulting. Nathalie Greifenstein Mainz, Germany Division Over Unions Re columnist Andrew Sullivan's essay on the Senate's defeat of the constitutional amendment banning gay marriage [July 26]: For anyone to claim that...
...Parkinson's disease; outside Bordeaux, France. After working in the cellars in his teens, he earned a doctorate in wines and almost single-handedly changed winemaking from an Old World industry to one using rigorous scientific methods--including improved temperature controls, lower acid levels and cleaner casks--to produce richer, better wines...
...CYCLING Michael Barry, Toronto Lyne Bessette, Knowlton, Que. Kiara Bisaro, Courtenay, B.C. Gord Fraser, Nepean, Ont. Ryder Hesjedal, Victoria, B.C. Manon Jutras, Montreal Seamus McGrath, Millgrove, Ont. Lori-Ann Muenzer, Edmonton Susan Palmer-Komar, Hamilton, Ont. Marie-H?lene Premont, Ch?teau-Richer, Que. Alison Sydor, Victoria, B.C. Eric Wohlberg, Levack...
...prices, "it costs me $85 a week to fill up my truck," he says. He worries about paying his variable-rate mortgage and Rita's student loans now that interest rates are higher. "I wouldn't say the economy is getting any better," he says. "The rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer, and the middle class is carrying all of them...
...particular, who surely deserved to smile. And so the boisterous yet unnamed Howard relative was grinning, still, because his family was tangibly richer. But you could also easily tell that he was just truly thrilled—maybe even offensively so—for his own flesh and blood. I could imagine myself in his shoes. I mean, his cousin had just been picked over the Connecticut golden boy, Okafor. (“He’s so intelligent,” analysts must have blathered on about Okafor at least 50 separate times.) This man’s cousin?...