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Why I Hate Sauvignon Blanc: Wine Review

Marlene Rossman | Posted 09.21.2008 | Style

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Marlene Rossman

However, if you want a marvelous bottle of Sauvignon Blanc that will not remind you of an incontinent feline, look for Santa Rita Sauv Blanc. It has aromas and flavors of tropical fruit.

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"Women, Power and Politics": How Have Women in Politics Changed the U.S. and the World?

Maria Hinojosa | Posted 09.19.2008 | Media

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Maria Hinojosa

For me, Palin's nomination raises a significant question: Is a woman candidate always a women's candidate? How would she fight for women's causes?

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35 Years After Original 9/11: New Transcripts of Kissinger's Role in Chilean Coup

Peter Kornbluh | Posted 09.10.2008 | Politics

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Peter Kornbluh

On the 35th anniversary of the September 11, 1973, CIA-backed military coup in Chile, phone transcripts that Kissinger made of his talks with President Nixon and the CIA chief among other top government officials reveal in the most candid of language the imperial mindset of the Nixon administration as it began plotting to overthrow President Salvador Allende, the world's first democratically elected Socialist.

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The Greatest President We Never Had

Norman MacAfee | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics

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Norman MacAfee

Robert Kennedy believed that politics was an honorable profession, and that government could be used for good. His murder sent a message of hopelessness, that nothing was possible anymore.

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Conviction in the Murder of Victor Jara -- 35 Years Late

Bob Harris | Posted 05.19.2008 | Politics

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Bob Harris

Last week -- almost thirty-five years after the fact, and nearly two decades after the end of the dictatorship -- a Chilean court has found a retired colonel, Mario Manriquez Bravo, guilty in the murder of Victor Jara.

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North Face Founder's $50M Chilean Rain Forest Gift At Risk

Bloomberg | Joshua Goodman | Posted 05.19.2008 | Business

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North Face Inc. founder Douglas Tompkins and his wife Kristine have spent $50 million to save Chile's rain forest. Now nature is rebelling: A volcano ...

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Chilean Volcano Eruption Forces Town To Evacuate: PHOTOS

Huffington Post | Posted 05.06.2008 | Home

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Reuters reports that a town in Chile has been ordered to evacuate all residents after a volcano erupted, spewing lava, ash and rock into the sky: Lav...

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The Bank Job

Roger Donaldson | Posted 03.14.2008 | Entertainment

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Roger Donaldson

Documentaries are approached in much the same way as feature films that are based on fact are created -- you set out with a point of view and present it as fact.

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Volcano Erupts In Chile

AP | Posted 01.01.2008 | Home

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A volcano in southern Chile erupted on Tuesday, spewing ash and smoke but posing no immediate risk to populated areas, officials said. A column of sm...

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Chile Earthquake Causes Strong Aftershocks

Posted 11.15.2007 | Home

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Strong aftershocks from a powerful earthquake hit northern Chile on Thursday as the government erected a working military hospital and promised hundre...

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Chile Earthquake Leaves 15,000 Homeless

AP | FEDERICO QUILODRAN | Posted 11.15.2007 | Home

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Strong aftershocks from a powerful earthquake hit northern Chile on Thursday as the government erected a working military hospital and promised hundre...

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Chile Earthquake Video

CNN | Posted 11.14.2007 | Home

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A major earthquake struck northern Chile on Wednesday, toppling power lines, closing roads and sending terrified residents into the streets. Authoriti...

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Chile Earthquake Measures 7.7 Magnitude

AP | Posted 11.14.2007 | Home

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At least two people were killed by a major earthquake of 7.7 magnitude that struck northern Chile today, authorities say. The earthquake damaged buil...

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