One thing should certainly come as no surprise: Neither al-Jazeera nor most of its American media counterparts have any interest in acquainting their audiences with facts the Kerry campaign might find inconvenient.

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It would be enough if Jeannie Cho Lee had just offered a handy guide to pairing Asian food dishes with appropriate wines, thus assisting Westerners grappling with some less familiar flavor combinations at their meals as well as the burgeoning numbers in Asia acquainting themselves with the fermented grape.

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