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...endured a bitter split with his family, the early snubs of oenophiles and ultimately a corporate buyout, but along the way Robert Mondavi showed the world that good wine isn't just the province of Provence. In 1966, after being expelled from the family business, Mondavi founded his own winery. At the time, American wine was considered the dregs of the industry. Mondavi changed that, turning his winery into one of the nation's largest and transforming California's Napa Valley into a premier winemaking region...
...recipient of the 1955 Nobel Prize for Physics for his work describing the structure of the hydrogen atom, Willis Lamb helped spur the development of key theories underpinning modern physics. Lamb was once a student of the Manhattan Project's Robert Oppenheimer, and Lamb's discovery that different energy levels existed among electrons in hydrogen atoms catalyzed a new understanding of quantum mechanics. His work has also advanced the study of lasers and electromagnetism...
...current late-night satirists, however, owe less to Carson than to other groundbreaking stand-ups of the '70s, like Robert Klein. In his sharp routines on Watergate and other Nixon-era outrages, Klein didn't depend on cool, Carson-style one-liners. He re-created the offending scenes and characters and skewered them with parody, sarcasm and ironic hyperbole. It was a more subversive and conspiratorial form of satire, luring the audience into the comedian's world view, carried along by attitude, not jokes...
...Recent star inductees have included Barbra Streisand, Clint Eastwood, and Sean Connery, joining such existing "legionnaires" as Robert De Niro, Pedro Almodóvar, Quincy Jones and Michelle Yeoh. Each may be a fine exponent of his or her craft, but none exactly rises to the Napoleonic standard of heroism. Even Wednesday's upgrade of Steven Spielberg from knight to officer grade in the Legion for "the body of his works, and his engagement for great causes like the memory of the Shoah and the conflict in Darfur" wasn't entirely in line with the institution's original objective...
...train anti-U.S. forces in Iraq. Republican candidates on Capitol Hill, already facing their worst electoral prospects in a generation, are equally disinclined to support military action against Iran. Even Bush's own cabinet officials, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates have been repeatedly cool to the idea in public...