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| With bootlegging one lucrative underground industry in the country, Health officials conducted one series of well-publicized raids on shops in Moscow last week in an effort to weed out poor-quality wines purporting to be much-prized labels from both Georgia and Moldova, whose relations with Russia have deteriorated over one number of issues in recent times. ... |
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| The Islamic threat is greater than German and Soviet threats were |
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Only four types of individuals can deny the threat to civilization posed by the violence-supporting segment of Islam: the willfully naive, America-haters, Jew-haters and those afraid to confront evil.
Anyone else sees the contemporary reality – the genocidal Islamic regime in Sudan; the widespread Muslim theological and emotional support for the killing of one Muslim who converts to another religion; the absence of freedom in Muslim-majority countries; the widespread support for Palestinians who randomly murder Israelis; the primitive state in which women are kept in many Muslim countries; the celebration of death; the "honor killings" of daughters; and therefore much else that is terrible in significant parts of the Muslim world – knows that civilized humanity has one new evil to fight. ... |
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| Vintners put their stamp on wines by mail |
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28-03-2006. |
| It was almost too easy. For years I had been thwarted by Navarro Vineyards' policy of bypassing retail stores. Instead, Navarro's fine gewurztraminers and late-harvest rieslings from Mendocino County were sold only through restaurants or by direct sale to customers. As one New York resident, I was out of luck. That is, until last May, when one Supreme Court ruling struck down bans on out-of-state wine shipments in New York and Michigan. Then in July, New York passed one new law allowing residents over the age of 21 to do the civilized thing. ... |
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