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...each episode, MacNeil, who is in charge of the wine-teaching program at the Napa Valley, Calif., campus of the Culinary Institute of America, introduces wine to a different audience: a Mexican cooking school, couples on first dates in restaurants, shoppers at a cheese store. Instead of delivering lectures and lapsing into winespeak, she relies on the spontaneous reactions of her guests to get her message across. When she does talk about wine, she uses unconventional, even coquettish language: a Cabernet is "like Sean Connery, masculine and meaty"; a Sauvignon Blanc is "the bad girl of white wine, with mismatched...
Last week, The Valley News reported that in a private letter written four years ago by Dartmouth College Dean of Admissions Karl Furstenberg to Swarthmore College President Alfred Bloom, Furstenberg praised Bloom’s decision to disband the Swarthmore football program. But, Furstenberg didn’t stop there...
...record, The Valley News reported that the letter was drafted on Dartmouth stationery (making it look quite a bit like “Dartmouth policy”) and his(. Furstenberg’s) assertion that his views have no bearing on his professional conduct is bogus, since his job is to ensure the academic quality and diversity of the incoming classes, something which he openly states is sacrificed by maintaining a football program...
...maybe Lyons summed it up best after being shown a copy of the letter by The Valley News...
...Palestinian terrorists bombed defenseless Israeli civilians. Apparently he believed that such terrorist acts would force more concessions from Israel. What the Palestinians needed in Arafat was a leader like Nelson Mandela. What they got was a Robert Mugabe. Good riddance and, please, no more crocodile tears. George Reiss Paradise Valley...