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...dynamic producers to attack the competition by giving them more liberty to do it in their own way." This isn't just talk. Bordeaux itself has put in place a series of measures that are broadly similar to the ones proposed by Brussels. The civb is offering to pay weak producers to pull up their vines. A new quality-control system is being implemented that, if enforced properly, could lead to underperforming wineries losing their right to call their wine Bordeaux. The Council is also quietly encouraging the 57 different Bordeaux appellations to consolidate. Five big areas...
...Think about your party's negatives A candidate's instinct is "to stick with your own tribe," Halperin says. But Clinton and Bush successfully addressed their parties' weak spots, like crime for the Dems and education for the G.O.P. "By doing that," says Halperin, "they not only appealed to independents but also strengthened their own parties." And their own electoral fortunes...
...approving of the help I was providing. It was unusual for a boy of any age to be as helpful as I was. There is an intimacy between mother and son, a son of six or seven. At that age a boy can still be a boy, can be weak and melt into his mother's arms. For me, though, this is the last time, for tomorrow I will not be a boy. I will be something else - an animal desperate only to survive. I know I cannot turn back and so I savor these days, these moments when...
Laziness is not for the weak of heart. Don’t feel too discouraged when you’re just beginning—it takes finely honed skill to sleep until noon, eat, waste six hours on the Internet, eat, and sleep again. Most give up around the middle of the afternoon and start reading Foucault, or, God forbid...
Most appalling of all is that the second half of the book and movie’s plot—Rob’s revisiting of his top five, all-time, desert island breakups—is condensed into one weak scene and approximately 30 seconds of musical interlude, during a song sung by the apparition of Bruce Springsteen. Hornby meditates on the nature of male self-centeredness and inability to grow up; Kitt and lyricist Amanda Green’s score simply lulls the audience into a bored stupor. (Quite literally, my date for the evening fell asleep before...