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Thank you, Brian Williams, for your wonderful tribute to the late Walter Cronkite [Dec. 28--Jan. 4]. Every news junkie in America, young or old, has a Cronkite memory that has helped shape the way he or she understands the news. From his onscreen breakdown after JFK's assassination to his jubilation at the fall of the Berlin Wall, Cronkite's deep emotional connection to the world events he covered will always be appreciated and admired...
...navel and Valencia oranges, planted in a vast swath of Riverside and San Bernardino counties, which stretch from East Los Angeles to the Arizona and Nevada borders. Starting in the 1970s, that area, now known as the Inland Empire, became a mecca for a new kind of homesteader: young families lured by cheap land and an easy commute to L.A. By 2008, it was home to 4.1 million people and one of the fastest-growing regions in the country...
...politics: "It revived old stereotypes, divided the women's movement, drove apart mothers and daughters, and set back the cause of equality in the political sphere by decades." Clinton and Palin suffered brutal personal attacks during their campaigns, venom that Kornblut ascribes to sexism. Won over by Barack Obama, young women failed to appreciate the historic nature of Clinton's quest. Sarah Palin's good looks, meanwhile, "contributed to the narrative of her as an idiotic pawn." Still, the author's in-depth interviews with powerful female politicians like Nancy Pelosi, Claire McCaskill and Janet Napolitano show that the distaff...
Human-rights groups, however, believe Siddiqui is no extremist and that she, along with her three young children (two of whom are American-born), was illegally detained and interrogated by Pakistani intelligence, likely at the behest of the U.S. In 2007 she was named a missing person in a briefing paper on U.S. responsibility for what is called "enforced disappearances" that was authored by six leading human-rights groups, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International...
...jumped from 3% of the market to 30% between 1990 and 2008, causing serious concern among wine makers from France and other European countries. The French are now realizing that they must swallow their pride and take a page from the New World playbook in order to attract new, young consumers with little wine-drinking experience. According to Denis Verdier, president of the Confederation of French Wine Cooperatives, this means introducing "easy-drinking" products with labels clearly stating the type of wine instead of the appellation, as well as a bit of gimmicky marketing. "I think France was sleeping...