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...tandem with Asia's ever-growing levels of wine consumption, the last two decades have seen a surge of interest in wine production, with entrepreneurs and hobbyists staking out their choices of terroir in the unlikeliest of locations, from sweltering river deltas to forested uplands. Granted, none are ready yet to challenge the supremacy of Old or New World vintners-but wasn't Australian wine widely mocked a mere 30 years ago? Here are three names to watch...
...Great Wall or Dynasty. And the steady progress of Indian cuisine from takeaway fodder to the dainty, ghee-free offerings of designer restaurants has also brought the name of Dindori Reserve - a decent Shiraz from India's Sula vineyards - to greater notice. But what about other Eastern bottlings? In tandem with Asia's ever-rising levels of wine consumption, the last two decades have seen a surge of interest in wine production, with entrepreneurs and hobbyists staking out their choices of terroir in the unlikeliest of locations, from sweltering river deltas to forested uplands. Granted, none are ready...
...indisputable that Summers listened to student demands. Summers has also crafted an enduring vision for Harvard’s expansion into Allston. It combines a strong emphasis on science research buildings with new undergraduate Houses, multi-purpose performance spaces, and an urban redevelopment plan. This expansion, in tandem with the recent enlargement of the Faculty, will place Harvard at the forefront of future scholarship, scientific and otherwise.In short, Harvard’s future seems secure even if its present is just the opposite. During his resignation speech yesterday, Summers talked about his vision and his initiatives continuing, even...
Laird, who started the book while a visiting fellow here at Harvard in 2003, has a talent for rendering the indirectness of personal relationships and interactions, but his skills are better reserved for poetry where silence and reticence work in tandem with a writer’s style. In “Utterly Monkey,” these awkward but poignant episodes are overwhelmed by the preposterous plot. For more than just the facts, try Laird’s first volume of poems “To a Fault,” or, better still, try his wife Zadie Smith?...
...sprint relay - a new Olympic event - one skier does a 1.1-kilometre loop and then tags her partner, who skis the same loop. Each skier completes three legs. After finishing second in the semifinal to advance, Renner started the first leg of the final. The Canadian tandem led after each of the first two exchanges and Renner was in the midst of an uphill section on her second loop when the pole broke. "I don't even know what happened, I just know that all of a sudden I was kind of flapping with one arm," she said, laughing...