We've become a nation of Laurel and Hardys if Laurel looked like Taylor Lautner and Hardy weighed 100 pounds more than Hardy ever did.

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Even if, as Day argues, the price is low for the company that owns the supermarket-mainstay Hardys and Banrock Station wineries, the merger suggests IWIF's vision is playing out: The wine industry's globalization is inevitable.

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Madeleine is a student primarily of the great domestic novels of the 19th century, the Austens and Jameses and Whartons and Eliots and Hardys, for which the quest for a good marriage so often provides the central framework.

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