Windows on the World had a wonderful Director of Wine, Kevin Zraly, who I had first met when he worked near my hometown at the De Puy Canal House in High Falls, NY.

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Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, whose home state of Mississippi benefits from cargo ships transiting the canal, and House Speaker Newt Gingrich of Georgia should act promptly so that Mr. Clinton and Vice President Al Gore will be unable to point their fingers to Capitol Hill when the question is asked: Who lost the Panama Canal.

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So he recently bought a house on a canal in Fort Lauderdale, started a new company and moved his offshore residence to land.

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Ms Banerjee lives in a modest two-storey house near a stinking canal in a rundown, lower middle-class Calcutta neighbourhood, and dresses and eats simply.

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As they slept, a barge in the Intracoastal Canal broke the levee three blocks from their house on August 29, Robert Green said.

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Travel on this canal for designer (and knockoff) shopping at Siam Square and visit the Jim Thompson House, the beautiful teak museum home of an American silk trader, and other central Bangkok sites such as the Bo Bae wholesale clothing market or the hip Thonglor neighbourhood, full of boutiques and cafes.

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