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Oenology 101. Try an educational vacation with some kick. San Francisco's Bruce Cass Wine Lab is offering a three-session weekend wine class starting Jan. 16, at the Kimpton Harbor Court hotel, meeting two hours each day, Friday through Sunday. Couples can get two nights at the hotel, plus the class, for $695; if you're traveling solo, the rate is $545. Normally, the courses cost $229 without accommodations. If you can't make this weekend, the Wine Lab is working on five to eight more dates in 2009. E-mail the school at classes@brucecasswinelab.com for information...
...mausoleum he raised for himself in a cemetery on the city's South Side. The words TRAIL BLAZER are carved into stone on the monument along with a long list of accomplishments. Chicago Sun-Times columnist Laura Washington recalled a job interview she once had with Burris. "The session lasted one hour," she wrote. "He spent 55 minutes talking about himself...
...most apparent. Every Wednesday, crowds of teenagers and twentysomethings line up hundreds deep at Holy Trinity Brompton for a chance to share a free meal, listen to a sermon, sing devotional songs and decide if they want to let Jesus into their heart. At a busy Alpha course session in November, attended by some 900 people, long-necked beauties in Ralph Lauren swanned among blond, ruddy chaps in blue velvet blazers. Nicky Gumbel, 53, the .0former Etonian and one-time barrister who founded the course to better reach young people, wore green socks, loafers and an open collar shirt. Gumbel...
Unlike in the 1980s, when oil fell to $8 a barrel, Texas is not heavily dependent on its energy industry, so the state "should have more resistance to, but not immunity from, recessionary conditions," according to state comptroller Susan Combs. When the legislature convenes for its biennial session in January, Texas will have a big surplus, thanks in part to last year's booming oil and gas revenues - one of only nine states...
...Sadrists were saying 'We are talking about having immunity for foreign troops here while an Iraqi is in prison for insulting a foreigner,'" says Mahmoud Othman, an independent Kurdish lawmaker who attended the session. "They're trying to embarrass al-Maliki in an election year, to portray him as an American puppet." (See the Top 10 Awkward Moments...