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...come from consumer-goods companies such as L'Oréal, rather than the wine business. "Winemakers don't know how to sell," he explains. "They'll just stick their nose in the glass and talk about how woody it smells." Yet as it adjusts, Bordeaux faces an image problem. The top wines in the region command huge prices because of their worldwide prestige, and their makers have no interest in being associated, even remotely, with the down-market plonk some merchants are now cooking up. But producers in the middle aren't happy, either; they worry that the massive...
...this particular coin, however, is that sole, intangible, conclusive argument against abolition—the poor penny is a beloved American institution; people will fight to keep it that way, regardless of the mounting number of facts to persuade us otherwise. The greatest obstacle to fixing the penny problem is cultural awareness. My two cents: We have reached a point where common sense necessitates retiring the common cent. Nathaniel S. Rakich ’10, a Crimson editorial comper, lives in Greenough Hall...
...important, but it doesn’t sell video games. I wish it did. I’d await EA Sports’ Scully ’07—after the ancient Dodgers broadcaster, Vin—just as eagerly as I do Madden ’07. Problem is, none of the other kids would play with...
...tactic themselves," says her spokesperson. Democrats speculated about a link to the National Security Administration's controversial warrantless wiretapping program. An Intelligence Committee spokesman tells TIME that the bill was initially pulled because of "national security concerns" they wanted addressed, but once those issues were raised they had no problems with the bill. Don Weber, a spokesman for the NSA, told TIME, "Given the nature of the work we do, we do not discuss actual or alleged operational issues as it can provide those wishing to do harm to the United States insight that could potentially place Americans in danger...
...idea that women in niqab can assimilate properly into a community or be effective as teachers distresses me, because it is at heart disingenuous. Clearly, meaningful social exchange requires a face. And the argument that non-verbal communication is inessential only addresses half the problem. The obscured woman, who can see her interlocutor clearly through her slits, is enjoying contact with a face; it's the other party, conversing with a tiny black tent, that bears the burden of the discomfort. It would be more sincere for niqab-wearers to say that they accept the cost of refusing to compromise...