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...Rentoul, Blair's first biographer, pointed out years ago that Blair's faith had been noted by those around him since he was a small child. Blair "rediscovered" his Christianity, he told me, while a student at Oxford in the 1970s. He was part of an informal late-night wine-and-cigarettes discussion group led by Peter Thompson, a charismatic Australian student and Anglican priest then in his 30s. (Thompson, who now lives in Melbourne, does not talk about his relationship with Blair.) I went up to Oxford just before Blair did; it was absorbed with sex, drugs and rock...
...associated with the growth of trade and human contact. "For all the horror it visited upon people," wrote Chanda, "missionary activity had the effect of shrinking the world. The spread of proselytizing faiths brought dispersed communities into contact." Coffee, for example, traveled with Islam (which forbade the consumption of wine), spreading from Yemen throughout the Arab world, then into Turkey and Europe. The constant back-and-forth of Buddhist scholars between India and China nourished the Silk Road as an avenue of commerce. Sometimes religious divines explicitly advanced the process of globalization long before anyone knew of the word...
...second question, about taking antidepressants recreationally,] my understanding is it's not as if, if you're having a bad day, you can take an antidepressant and feel better for a few hours. The analogy of having a glass of wine on a Friday night, I don't think it really works. You have to be on antidepressants, taking them for a couple weeks, before you start feeling a bit better...
...fish option. Both cost about $20 a plate; steak would have been $40. Few venues let couples stock their own bar, but limiting the open bar is a fine option for capping the caterer's markup on the booze. Annemarie Conte and Andy Kielich will serve beer and wine and maybe two types of liquor at their September wedding in Dingmans Ferry, Pa. "We can't cater to every whim," says Conte, "which was hard for me because you never want to feel inhospitable." Briones suggests nixing the bubbly: "Not everyone likes champagne. And [at toast time] most people...
...endured a bitter split with his family, the early snubs of oenophiles and ultimately a corporate buyout, but along the way Robert Mondavi showed the world that good wine isn't just the province of Provence. In 1966, after being expelled from the family business, Mondavi founded his own winery. At the time, American wine was considered the dregs of the industry. Mondavi changed that, turning his winery into one of the nation's largest and transforming California's Napa Valley into a premier winemaking region...