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CLEMENT: RHUM CANNE BLEUE Not all white rums are tasteless tipples. By using a single sugarcane variety - blue cane - Martinique's Clément created a super smooth liquor loaded with citrus, almond and floral flavors. See details at rhum-clement.com...
Other winemakers are becoming intrigued. After Marionnet created a cuvée from the abandoned Gamay de Bouze, young neighbor Julien Courtois of Clos de la Bruyère created his Elément-Terre of pure Gamay de Chaudenay. The two are undoubtedly the only cuvées of their kind. And using the traditional oxidative vin de voile method - in which casks are only partially filled, allowing yeast to grow on the wine's exposed surface - Courtois has transformed ancient Loire varietal Menu Pineau into an ethereal wine with a bouquet of hazelnut and mouth of caramelized apple...
...pressure they've come under from free papers has led dailies to consider similar practices as they seek to react to falling ad revenues and the threat from the Internet," says Jean-Clément Texier, a media expert and founder of the Compagnie financière de communication consulting group in Paris. "Of course, readers initially react by saying it's a terrible move that breaks French tradition and deprives them of their paper. But since a huge portion of French dailies come in the morning mail - which doesn't operate on holidays - will anyone really miss getting those...
...clearest sign of a troubled American ethic - perhaps even more than any aggressive Washington foreign policy. In recent polls, more than 60% of West Europeans say they oppose the death penalty, compared to less than one-fourth of Americans. Letter-writing campaigns against the death penalty are constant; Parlia-ment declarations denouncing the punishment frequent. Just down the road in Rome, the Colosseum is regularly illuminated to honor death-penalty victims, and before Summers, Italy had twice allowed men executed in the U.S. to be buried in its soil. Says Caterina Calderoni, a Milan music teacher who'd campaigned...
...Bell, Sloan finally had the in-house ally she needed, and under House rules formally filed a CREW-drafted com-plaint in June 2004. Eventually, the Ethics Committee unanimously admonished the majority leader--an early sign of the troubles that led to DeLay's resignation and an achieve- ment Sloan counts as "the thing I'm most proud...