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Even the makers of the Douglas movie could not bear to leave their hero a beautiful loser forever. At the end of the picture, there he is--clean-shaven, writing his new and tidy novel, his new wife and child emerging from his new car--all seen from a vast picture window in a new house so full of sunlight it makes one long for slush...
...came in 1997 from the World Trade Organization and the European Union. Since 1974, the Mexican government had kept tight control over the production and labeling of the liquor: only tequila made from at least 51% Weber blue agave grown in Jalisco state or five designated neighboring areas could bear the generic tequila name. The WTO and the E.U. concurred, making tequila--like Champagne, Cognac and sherry--one of the world's few geographically defined liquors. Suddenly dozens of brands produced in other Mexican states, the U.S. and Spain had to be relabeled, focusing the tequila demand on Jalisco...
Defining those who bear the guilt of slavery, those who would pay for reparations, would be even more difficult. Well under half of the U.S. population at the time of the Civil War lived in states where slavery was legal, and many in those states did not own slaves. A large proportion of the current American population is descended from immigrants who settled here generations after slavery was abolished. Should Britain pay the reparations for descendants of slaves freed before America gained its independence? As Winthrop Professor of History Stephen A. Thernstrom has said, blame for slavery (and responsibility...
...early exit polls. Aides started celebrating. McCain rushed off the phone. "What? What? What?" he said, his necktie still around his chest from the haircut. When he heard the early numbers, his eyes bugged out as if he were wearing novelty glasses. While his staff traded high fives and bear hugs, McCain said...
...wide margin. But McCain can still take a major chunk of the popular vote, which he hopes would serve as a wake-up call to the GOP party establishment as they consider their options for November. McCain maintains that he is the most electable Republican candidate, and the polls bear him out, giving McCain a 24-point lead over a presumptive Gore campaign - while Bush has only a nine-point buffer zone between himself and the vice president. "A popular win in Califonia would be something of a moral victory for McCain," says TIME senior writer Nancy Gibbs. "It would...