Opinion: Left-rail roundup: Poison pals; e pluribus loonie; red, red wine

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Alexander Litvinenko gets a deadly dose of polonium-210, and it’s hard to take Vladimir Putin’s denials seriously.

Tender the one-buck coin, buck the one-dollar bill.

What do the vintners buy half so precious as the thing they sell? A slimming dose of resveratrol, apparently.