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Even Olivier Krug, director of the house, admits that the single-vineyard Clos d'Ambonnay is one of "the simplest Krug wines to produce." As far as I am concerned, though, it is simply stunning, and I find myself thinking of every possible excuse to make a toast. Here's to Tuesday afternoons...
...approval rating of the incumbent President, the economic growth rate and the "time-for-a-change" factor of whether the incumbent's party has controlled the White House for two terms. McCain's score is the worst since Jimmy Carter's in 1980. "History suggests that McCain is toast," Clive Crook wrote in the Financial Times...
...formal dinner in a Beijing hotel last week, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin toasted a rotund 72-year-old at the table and offered a tribute: ''Mr. Eisenberg opened the doors to China for Israel.'' It was a rare moment in the public spotlight for Israeli tycoon Shoul Eisenberg, but senior officials at the dinner knew exactly what Rabin meant. Modern weaponry is at the heart of the Jerusalem-Beijing relationship, and Eisenberg has been selling Israeli defense technology to the Chinese for more than a decade. Eisenberg is the real-life version of the international power brokers who appear...
...quite reasonably so,'' says an American diplomat. ''Since the coup, they've done only what Cedras and Francois dictate.'' Under Cedras' scheme, the Senate could reject numerous nominations before agreeing to people he and Francois find acceptable. Once again, Aristide would be a figurehead, a symbol the world could toast as Haiti's real power was held by goons. Having heard nothing by Saturday afternoon, Cedras seemed to budge again. In an interview with TIME's Ed Barnes, Cedras waved a copy of the U.N. Charter as he declared the U.S. embargo ''illegal.'' Nevertheless, he said, ''I don't want...
...foam settled on the biggest drinks merger in history, workers at Anheuser-Busch have been a lot less keen than shareholders to toast the company's $52 billion takeover by the Belgium-based behemoth InBev. Unions in hard-hit St. Louis, Missouri, where Budweiser has been brewed since 1876, pledged to protect the jobs of Anheuser-Busch's's 30,000-strong workforce. They better roll up their sleeves, because InBev will bring to town a reputation as a ruthless cost-cutter that has prospered by slicing fat from its units, consolidating breweries and laying off staff in a relentless...