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...poultry products had been issued by 43 non-E.U. countries, including Japan, the biggest non-European importer of French foie gras. "There's no health justification for these bans, and the government's working to get them lifted or at least limited to certain regions and products," says Vincent Truelle, co-director of an association of foie gras producers. "Their effect isn't catastrophic in commercial terms for us, but it's irritating to have our image undermined like this." The same fears attend the vaccination program for ducks and geese, which has been authorized in parts...
...Armitage’s course on the Declaration of Independence, Joyce Chaplin’s on “The Nine Lives of Benjamin Franklin,” or Jill Lepore’s new core course, “Liberty and Slavery.” He did mention Vincent Brown’s course on “Atlantic Revolution,” but sadly didn’t seem to recognize why Haiti mattered. Fortunately, Harvard students know better...
...poet Edna St. Vincent Millay once wrote, "A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down." Taking the thought a step further, to write poetry and then expose it to the scrutiny of your peers and a renowned poet may be to appear with no clothes at all. That takes a rare degree of bravado, talent or self-delusion. Struggling to know which of those qualities he possesses is Larry Campbell, the neurotic young poet hero of Lynn Coady's very funny new novel, Mean Boy (Doubleday Canada; 382 pages), a sharp take...
...nearly two-year hiatus (Sundays, 9 p.m. E.T., starting March 12), Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) continues to live his charmed life. The mafia business is booming. He is a free man, escaping the Feds through one lucky turn after another, while his ally/rival, New York boss Johnny Sack (Vincent Curatola) is locked up. He's fat and happy-as happy as Tony gets, anyway-in the prime of his career, shoveling $40-a-piece sushi down his gullet at dinner with his often-cheated-upon but newly reconciled wife, Carmela (Edie Falco...
...INDONESIA: When Hatten Wines (www.hattenwines.com) started production at Sanur, Bali with Alphonse Lavelle grapes in 1994, experts scoffed, claiming that the table variety was unsuitable for winemaking. They were wrong. Hatten's Rosé is medium dry, fresh and pleasantly fruity. Winemaker Vincent Desplat also produces an award-winning, semi-sweet wine, Pino de Bali...