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...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 into winelands throughout the African continent. The result is Africa Uncorked (Double Storey Books; 288 pages), the Platters' book...
...plan survives its first wave of criticism as a brazen Reaganomic boondoggle, it may turn out to have a thick political skin. The marginal-rate cuts, as Bush will point out in every speech from now until spring, were already passed by Congress once (with bipartisan support, no less); why not start enjoying them now? The increases in child-care credits and marriage-penalty relief (not to mention, and Bush will, the immediate dropping of the 15 percent tax bracket to 10 percent) offer something for every hard-working middle-class family of swing voters. And the elimination...
...that Summers would dance with her and, on camera, approached the president as he made his rounds. She said that after jokingly asking for a $5 cut of her winnings, he agreed to dance—but once the music started she couldn’t get through the thick crowd surrounding the bobbing president...
...bagels are fresh. The cream cheese is piled thick. The salami is kosher. The address is ... Hong Kong? Yes, welcome to the place that's fast become a veritable oasis for expats looking for comfort food that's more pastrami than pork bun-Archie...
...Lynne have held periodic dinner parties - an attendee calls them "salons" - featuring big thinkers on topics ranging from American political history (David McCullough) to Islam's relationship with the West (Bernard Lewis). To prepare for a Meet the Press session last fall, Matalin took him two 6-in.-thick binders full of briefing materials. "He loves to prepare," she says. "You can't give him too much information. He just swallows it and asks for more...