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...Lodge, confirms their lofty statement. Sitting on 175 acres of rolling hills, the cemetery was founded in 1831 by wealthy Bostonians who sought a tranquil resting-place for the dead, and a vibrant park-ground for the, well, non-dead. Over the years, the cemetery has become the home turf for some of New England’s best and brightest, from Massachusetts senator and vocal abolitionist Charles Sumner to 19th century landscape painter Winslow Homer. But even with all those skeletons lurking below, the cemetery’s well-manicured lawns and gravestones make the place more sedate than...
...with a colossal amount of business. A decade ago, France exported three times as much wine as all the so-called New World producers put together; today it has been overtaken, and now sells about 15% less than they do. The pummeling is especially bruising on its home turf: Europe as a whole now imports almost as much wine as it exports, something that would have been unthinkable a decade ago. In Britain alone, one of the biggest and most competitive markets anywhere, the Australians have gone from exotic afterthought to undisputed market leader in a few years. The French...
...interpreted expansively to do so, and one attorney is looking at whether California even has jurisdiction over his client. To avoid such loopholes and create a clear standard, lawmakers, phone company executives and regulators have stressed how important it is to adopt federal legislation against pretexting, but party turf wars and special interests will likely prevent this from happening anytime soon. "It's mind-boggling to me how all the parties in February said they would have a bill to the President soon and it hasn't happened yet," said Robert Douglas, an information security consultant who runs PrivacyToday.com...
...decade ago, France exported three times as much wine as all the so-called New World producers combined. Today France has been overtaken and sells about 15% less than they do. The pummeling is especially bruising on home turf: Europe now imports almost as much wine as it exports. In Britain alone--one of the biggest markets anywhere--the Australians have gone from exotic afterthought to undisputed market leader in a few years. In the U.S., the Australians outsell the French 3 to 1 and have put some California wineries to the sword...
...chorus of n-o-o-o-s. "Not you," the man says. "You're brand new." Obama wanders into a casual disquisition about the sluggish nature of democracy. The answer is not even remotely a standard, pretaped political response. He moves through some fairly arcane turf, talking about how political gerrymandering has led to a generation of politicians who come from safe districts where they don't have to consider the other side of the debate, which has made compromise--and therefore legislative progress--more difficult. "That's why I favored Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposal last year, a nonpartisan commission...