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What the Adams House Masters described as an “unusual” e-mail intended to spark debate on Iraq has provoked concerns—the University president’s included—over the use of a House-wide e-mail to present the Masters’ political views...
...grapes are harvested and processed. They are picked and pressed while frozen solid, in the dead of winter. The result is a wine with an intense flavor--sweet, like Sauternes, but tangy. "I love these wines," says Andrea Immer, author of Great Tastes Made Simple. "They're a spark plug for the mouth." Ice wines originated in the 1790s when workers in the Franconian region of Germany tried to salvage grapes frozen in an early frost. One of the newest producers is Canada, whose nippy Niagara Peninsula provides the perfect microclimate for growing--and freezing--ice wine's Riesling, Vidal...
...plan, which would cost the government nearly $600 billion over 10 years, will be "heavily front loaded" in an attempt to spark the flagging economy, say Administration sources. It will also include incentives for corporate investment and tax breaks to spur small-business purchases of new equipment. All this will be sold as a way of creating jobs--the central message of a choreographed weeklong roll-out that will also feature Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Commerce Don Evans. "This is not about negotiating with the Hill," Bush insisted in a video conference call with his economic team...
...course, the fundamental idea behind investing in the markets. It is also now the fundamental hope behind Bush's $300 billion proposal to eliminate the tax on corporate dividends paid to shareholders. Administration officials have helpfully volunteered that they expect the elimination of the dividend tax to spark a sustained stock market rally, which in turn will convince Americans that good times have returned, causing them to spend more money and thus give a boost to the economy. And that, they hope, will ensure that this President Bush will escape the fate of his father, who lost in 1992 largely...
...hope people will leave the theater humming the show tunes and in a happy mood, but I also hope that it will stir some level of emotion, some spark of, ‘I better call my dad and find out how he’s doing,’” Galper says...