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...global game, but too short on cash to even get in the game. Beer is so cheap in Germany that a mid-'90s law designed to cut down on drunkenness forced pubs to price at least one nonalcoholic drink cheaper than beer. And German consumers watch their wallets: when Beck's (550 million liters) raised prices in 2000, its sales fell 20%. Last year, brands like Warsteiner (570 million liters) and Radeberger (880 million liters) did manage to lead prices in the premium segment higher by advertising their quality, but beer inflation still trails other products. For many years, German...
...French, after all, so he has the exemplary squalor of Sartre, Celine and Genet to live up to. It was the state-of-the-art estrangement, plus the sex, that made his second novel, The Elementary Particles, a huge best seller in Europe and made Houellebecq (pronounced Well-beck) a heavily contested literary star. Last year he was acquitted by a French court of inciting racial hatred after he called Islam "the most stupid religion." (Does it help to know that his mother left him in childhood for an Arab and converted to Islam?) So is he a new paradigm...
...owner to acknowledge that pets are more than mere property, and a 2001 Oregon measure protects bequests left to dogs. You can forget leash laws; animal lovers are now lobbying their city councils for more dog parks. "This is part of a civil rights movement," says Alan Beck, professor of animal ecology and director of the Center for the Human-Animal Bond at Purdue University. "It wasn't until 30 years ago we began to give up public space for basketball courts and soccer fields. Now we're beginning to realize that pets have similar needs...
...Administrative Board will investigate peer dispute cases. They went through the main talking points, called their press contacts the best they could, and went out with their posters and slogans. “We weren’t in the position to have The New York Times at our beck and call,” says one CASV member. The Times bit, though, and the change did get extensive coverage. Photos of protesters bearing signs reading “Rape Happens At Harvard” were internationally disseminated...
...other 49 state winners and I were treated like princesses from the second we landed in Mobile, Alabama. Junior Miss is a very big deal to the city. We each had drivers with official Junior Miss logos on their cars, sponsor families and hospitality mothers at our beck and call. Have a craving for an Oreo mid-rehearsal? The hospitality moms were more than happy to drive out to the store. Little girls asked for autographs, earnestly leaning in close to whisper that they hoped they would be a Junior Miss someday. Wherever we went, the Mobile press followed. Every...