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...Italian-Austrian who ranched cattle in Kenya's Rift Valley. She is the daughter of a South African sugar-cane farmer. While John and Erica Platter were not actually born into South Africa's 300-year-old viticulture industry, they have nonetheless become the foremost ambassadors of the country's wine. The Platters' annual South African wine guide was first published in 1979. The 2003 edition is 520 pages thick, and required reading among the sundowner-sipping svelte of the veldt. Now, after what they describe as "a year, or two, of drinking dangerously" the couple have completed a safari...
...which many were unaware and others were powerless to stop. He became addicted to crystal methamphetamine, spent an increasing amount of time in casinos and strip joints, and endured several minor scrapes with the law. Each incident served to gradually erode his political credibility and widen the already considerable rift with his family...
Beth Witrogen McLeod, author of And Thou Shalt Honor: The Caregiver's Companion (published in September by Rodale Books, in conjunction with a pbs documentary of the same name), says a parent's illness can cause a rift between siblings, as old wounds surface and brothers and sisters begin to squabble over care, money worries and commitment to the parent. "Sometimes the most painful part of a parent's illness for a family is what it does to the sibling relationship," she says. One sibling usually ends up "in charge" while others may balk at duties or back away altogether...
Every faction in the Administration reads the evidence gathered by the CIA about Iraq's actions and capabilities in different ways--usually to justify its preferred outcome. And then the factions press for more. The agency has tried not to take sides, but the rift between it and the Administration hawks is widening as the White House "pushes the envelope" on evidence against Saddam, says a senior intelligence official. The pressure from the hard-liners to paint Saddam in the most dangerous hues "is intense," the official explains. "There is one overriding emphasis, and that is to sell the policy...
Throw as many darts as Kelley does, and you will occasionally hit a target. The show is sharpest when it looks at the rift between young women and ERA-era feminists, represented by vicious, condescending lawyer Meredith (Lisa Banes), a.k.a. "the Praying Mantis." "What chance does feminism have in this sweat hole when the strong women become like [the men]?" Lynne asks, referring to her older, Type A colleague. Meredith is a harpy who spits her lines like Cruella De Vil, though she hints that she's more complicated. There's the kernel of an interesting story here, about young...