Word: vineyard
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...Bush brags about the searing, dry heat at his remote Texas ranch, where he will spend most of August hanging with his heifers. (Real men don't go to Maine.) The softie Clinton will once again mooch a house off friends to swing among the swells on Martha's Vineyard. There must be some middle ground between these two. Bush is promising to make a few sorties out among the people during August to whip up enthusiasm for his presidency. He should review a tape of Clinton in Harlem to see how it's done...
...husband William Bessette, agreed to the settlement offer just before a July 16 deadline for filing a wrongful-death suit. Kennedy, his wife and sister-in-law were killed July 16, 1999, when a plane piloted by Kennedy went down in the ocean just off Martha's Vineyard...
...smaller quantities of high-quality wine. It didn't take long for the news to reach California's Napa Valley, where Robert G. Mondavi, now 88, and his family have been making premium wines for decades. In early 1998, Mondavi dispatched a team to the Languedoc to find a vineyard where the winemaker could produce its own high-quality vintage. The company settled on 50 hectares of scrub-covered hillside above Aniane, where pioneering local growers at the Mas de Daumas Gassac and the Domaine de la Grange des Pères had already shown the potential of vines planted...
...Diaz' election effectively sunk the project. His first action as mayor was to block ground clearance on the land Mondavi had leased for its vineyard. But beneath the rhetoric, powerful local interests were in play. Opposition to the project was led by Aimé Guibert, the owner of Daumas Gassac whose plans to sell his own vineyard to Mondavi had fallen through. Mayor Diaz won over a majority of Aniane's voters with arguments worthy of Astérix: "Do we French growers, with our know-how and traditions, really need Mondavi to help us with our wine-making technique...
...write a book about America these days, a work of definitive analysis, you know? Like the big thinkers. Come up with an all-encompassing theory about the end of history, or the Whatsit Generation, or better yet, be Tocqueville--so that everyone in the Hamptons or on Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket this summer would nod in somber yet enthusiastic agreement that, yep, this is America, all right...