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...DIFFICULTY This producer, along with neighbors like Amisfield and Carrick, is part of a group of small but acclaimed Bannockburn wineries, situated about 45 minutes outside Queenstown. Mt. Difficulty, tel: (64-3) 445 3445, is particularly known for its single-vineyard wines, and offers samples in a caf? with dramatic views of the area's old gold mines. Its award-winning Pinot Noirs are listed at mtdifficulty.co.nz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Reds Are Coming | 2/7/2005 | See Source »

...Caxton's printing press, Eton is, behind its ancient walls, steadily redressing itself for a more modern age. Perhaps the most hallowed tradition at Eton is a defiance of all expectations. And during the past 10 years, the school's headmaster, Eric Anderson, and its provost, Lord Charteris of Amisfield, have quietly set about revolutionizing the classic institution from within. Realizing, as Anderson stresses, that Eton must prepare its students for a more international world, it has opened its doors to more and more scholarship students and to boys from Germany, the Soviet Union and Spain. Latin is fading toward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Dusting Off the Old School Ties | 12/10/1990 | See Source »

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