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...saying no to the tyranny of time, no to the merciless onslaught of the calendar, and yes to staying put in 2008," says a man who identifies himself as Marie-Gabriel, a militant member of the Fonacon group, which is organizing its fourth annual anti-New Year protest under the slogan "2009 Stays In Its Shell." "Last year we warned a mocking world that 2008 would be horrible compared to 2007, and we were right. This time everyone acknowledges 2009 will be terrible, so now is the moment to unite together and refuse this new, rotten year!" (Read TIME...
...Marie-Gabriel says he saw similar potential in mocking the sparkling, de rigueur New Year's Eve festivities that many French admit to hating. "It started with me and another guy realizing most New Year's Eves in France are just really boring evenings people are forced into with others they neither know nor like," he recalls. "So we started holding anti-New Year protest parties for people wanting an alternative - and an excuse to demonstrate! Sure, 98% of France thinks we're losers, but the 2% who get it make it worthwhile...
...sense, Playboy was the anti-New Yorker. It was the Chicagoan. Playboy was founded at about the time the Second City was becoming the Third, after Los Angeles, in population and cultural import. But from the first, home-town boy Hef pursued Chicago writers and artists, perhaps because he could hustle them personally. Nelson Algren, Ben Hecht, Silverstein, LeRoy Neiman, and later David Mamet, gave Playboy a Midwestern voice to go with its middle-American notion of pulchritude...
...hailed 4. House vote 7. He suspended Strawberry 9. Troops here may have got defective chemical suits 12. He labeled McCain "anti-New York" 13. McCain called Robertson and Falwell "__ of intolerance" 14. Kind of discrimination 15. Spain's Princess __ 17. Politically incorrect suffix 18. Novi Sad resident 20. __ attack (hacker's ploy) 21. Cass Elliot was one 22. China won't relinquish its right to use force here 24. Went white 25. Arbitrator Shyam __, who halved Rocker's suspension 26. Women's patriotic org. 27. Airline that's going Chapter 11 30. Kind of profiling at issue 33. Score...
...million in federal matching funds and, perhaps, a chance to be in the presidential debates, the party's nomination is the stage for an angry voice. There's no ideological price of admission. The party, founded by Perot, welcomes earnest centrists eager for entitlement reform as well as anti-new world order conspiracists. So each potential candidate, from the hard left to hard right, can justifiably see it as terra firma...