Amanti Vino was one of several places where I shopped for the wines for my tasting (Crush Wine on 57th Street in Manhattan is another top German wine source).

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Our Mary Ellen Egan sat down with her this summer, and her reporting only solidified my already rampant girl crush.

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Even a game like Half-Life 2, which was probably my first big PC shooter crush, felt pretty repetitive when it came to the badguys.

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If these efforts to rid my vision of its dark scrim pay off (I admit, they don't always), I greet the sidewalk crush with a wide expanse in my chest and a buoyant gait.

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On one of my trips to Kabul I encountered a similar crowd crush to get inside the terminal, supplemented by customs officials shaking down a colleague.

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My wife actually says that I have a man-crush on him, so perhaps it was.

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Even the stunning Neve Campbell made her way down the street, dodging knives, running and throwing stuff, and the childhood Canadian crush in me was delighted when she smiled my way and waved.

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My husband told me to back off, that our son was merely a kid with a crush who needed to experience this rite of passage on his own, without a hovering mother.

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