March 16, 2023 6:00 AM EDT
The wine world let out a collective gasp in 2021 when Champagne house Bollinger made its first acquisition outside of France: not some place in Napa or Sonoma, but Ponzi Vineyards, which set the standard for Oregon winemaking back in the 1970s. The Willamette Valley had really, really made it, but for those in the know, the ascendance of the pinot noir powerhouse in Portland’s backyard seemed almost inevitable. Read More...
I asked her out and we started a relationship and since my parents had been on my neck to get married and give them grand children, I took her to meet my parents. Loveth was well accepted and my parents commended me on my good choice, saying she is from a good home and would make a good wife. When we got back to Lagos, we began making plans for our wedding though Loveth refused to move in with me till we got married. Read More...
As the death toll in Gaza continues to grow amid Israel’s punishing bombardment of the Strip, so too does another statistic: the missing children. To date, at least 21,000 children are missing amid the chaos of the war, according to a new report by Save the Children—a figure the charity says includes 17,000 children who are unaccompanied or separated from their families as a result of the war and the 4,000 children who are thought to be missing under the rubble, as well as the untold number of children who have either been detained by Israeli forces or have been recently discovered in mass graves. Read More...
