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...Hawthorne Country House, tel: (64-6) 878-0035, in Hawke's Bay, a premier winegrowing region, makes the perfect base for a wine education tour. Only a short drive from nearly 40 vineyards, the rambling Edwardian mansion features creaking floors, leaded lights and neatly tended gardens complete with croquet hoops and bunnies. The ample verandas of the five well-appointed rooms are ideal for enjoying bottled souvenirs of a day spent sampling the local vintages...
...most powerful, and we’re certainly the most athletic. When we finally do win the World Cup in soccer and defeat Germany in the race for most overall Winter Olympic medals, we’ll have just about everything. We can move on to croquet and cricket until we’re the best at that...
...what to do once we have left—to go into I-banking or work for a non-profit, or maybe head to graduate school as a means of delaying the decision. The liberal education universities seek to provide is just an antiquated tradition, an activity (like croquet) once pursued by the leisured classes to occupy their time and no longer applicable to a changed, egalitarian world...
...collar. She bent down to show me how it works, and the weight of the pager opened a fabulous landscape of tanned young breasts and gleaming white brassiere. I gazed in and realized that my libidinous urge had shrunk to something akin to my urge to play croquet...
...They are working on their entry admissions, on putting together a recruiting program that’s more open and transparent,” Illingworth said. “It would have to be a process that was interest based, more along the lines of a croquet club,” he said...