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...Italian-Austrian who ranched cattle in Kenya's Rift Valley. She is the daughter of a South African sugar-cane 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...
...London - died after being shot in his right thigh on Waterloo Bridge with an umbrella rigged to fire a minuscule pellet containing ricin. Now the Wood Green neighborhood finds itself at the nexus of a web of terror that stretches from Algeria to Afghanistan, Paris to the Pankisi Valley, London to Los Angeles. "Even the successful actions by antiterrorism officials confirm evidence that al-Qaeda's numbers are swelling," says independent French terror expert Roland Jacquard. "Each raid that involves the arrest of several known operatives also turns up names and pseudonyms of people investigators never heard of. These names...
...daughter of a mailman who never graduated from high school and walked 14 miles a day to make his rounds--the socioeconomic topography mirrors the geographical one. Everybody is on the level because there is only one. In the Iowa where she was raised and in the Apple Valley community outside Minneapolis where she moved with her family, hierarchy never had much of a chance. Most people drive the same kind of car, have the same kind of yard behind the same kind of weatherboard house. The houses are spread equally across the expanse, not clustered in some pecking order...
...three days after the announcement, her husband Lance recalls, she did not come home at all. "At times I felt like I was in a very dark place," Cooper says. She read and reread the 23rd Psalm: "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me." At various times during the ordeal, she has been screamed at and she has been patronized, say her colleagues. She continued to work, keeping long hours to help the accounting firm KPMG redo Andersen's audit and staying at her parents...
...tackling a new challenge. Foster's Group recently appointed him managing director of Carlton and United Breweries, the Australian beer, spirits and hotel division responsible for more than half the group's operating earnings. As CFO, he helped Foster's buy Beringer Wine Estates of Napa Valley for $1.5 billion. Insiders say a strong performance in his new job will make O'Hoy the likely successor to Foster's CEO, Ted Kunkel...