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...It’s no wonder that, in the 2024 version of SVB’s annual scorecard, Rob McMillan’s State of the US Wine Industry Report, by far the most important sales channel for premium wineries was the tasting room,...
...(CFR live from 1600 GMT) Food for thought Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson reached the summit of the 3,000-foot rock known as El Capitan in Yosemite National Park yesterday....
...Democrats won the Senate back in 2006 when they recruited gun-enthusiasts as candidates (Jim Webb in Virginia, Jon Tester in Montana, Bob Casey Jr in Pennsylvania), enforced a candidates’ vow of silence...
...Fahrenkopf, Jr. Sir, Christopher Caldwell treats the gaming industry with astounding bias (“EuroVegas is a gamble not worth taking”, September 15)....
...Buckley Jr, the late American conservative, once wrote that he would rather be ruled by the first hundred names in the Boston telephone directory than by the faculty of Harvard....
...This week Cyrus Vance Jr, the New York district attorney, successfully petitioned to drop the charges he brought against Mr Strauss-Kahn in May....
...Roger Pielke, Jr, Professor, Environmental Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, US...
The Democrats face losing dozens of seats at the elections
...It has evolved since the 1950s, when Generoso “Gene” Pope Jr, godson of the Mafia boss Frank Costello, turned it into a venue for gory accounts of crime and mayhem....
...The writer is an FT columnist More columns at www.ft.com/caldwell...
...The writer is a senior editor at The Weekly Standard More columns at www.ft.com/caldwell...
...The scope of legislators’ discretion was narrowed by a Supreme Court decision in 1969, after the House of Representatives voted to exclude New York congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr, a civil-rights firebrand...
...When his charismatic predecessor, Harold Ford Jr, ran for Senate two years ago, Mr Cohen wound up in a primary against 11 black candidates and eked out a victory with just over 30 per cent of the vote....
...It took Washington more than a generation to restore its black business districts to a fraction – and only a fraction – of the lustre they had when rioters burnt them after Martin Luther King Jr’s assassination...
...Mr Bush Jr is different. He accuses them of petty squabbling over the partisan composition of the Supreme Court....
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