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Wine'd Down. At Timber Cove Inn, located on an outcropping above the crashing waves of the Pacific about two hours north of San Francisco, you can luxuriate in your own private hot tub, then lounge by your in-room fireplace. The inn's Savor Sonoma Package, which includes a room and a six-course tasting menu, costs $229 for two guests. What's more, the local wineries will come to you with their wares: the guided tasting each weekend costs $15 to $20 for four glasses. If you buy one of the wines, you can drink...
...Colombia does not lack for presidential timber, and most candidates pledge to continue Uribe's national-security policies. Chief among them is Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos, who oversaw a series of battlefield triumphs including last year's commando raid that rescued 15 guerilla-held hostages. Santos will step down at the end of the month to launch his own presidential bid but said he would pull out if Uribe is allowed to run. The reason? Opinion polls show that in a head-to-head contest, Santos would be trounced by his former boss...
...struck by the shortsightedness of the government's policy in forcing the Korengal Valley to stop producing timber. It seems extremely foolish to deny people access to jobs and money when the alternative for them is to join the enemy. The same applies to the opium trade. It would be better for Western governments to buy the crop above the black-market price for their pharmaceutical industries, even if it meant stockpiling or perhaps destroying some of the final product. The war cannot be won; the best that can be achieved is for the allies to hold the fort while...
...Partners, once managed $22 billion worth of North American and European public and private real estate investments for LaSalle Investment Management, where he served as a Co-Chief Executive Officer and Co-Chief Investment Officer. Real assets as a whole—which include liquid commodities, real estate, and timber and agricultural land—represented 26 percent of the endowment in 2008, according to a Harvard financial statement. Last year, the real estate portfolio provided returns of 3.2 percent—beating the HMC board-approved benchmark of 2.4 percent. Cummings, a Chicago and Dartmouth graduate, said...
...decade-long business career, Ireland's Declan Ganley, 40, has launched a telecoms firm, a timber trading company, a cable television operator, an online jewelry retailer and a finance house. But it is his latest venture that could end up having the biggest impact. In 2006 Ganley founded Libertas, a think tank that concentrated its scorn on the European Union. At the end of 2008 it became an E.U.-wide political party with the express aim of overhauling the institution it so often criticizes. "We are saddled with a tyranny of mediocrity," Ganley says. "It boggles the mind. Almost...