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...intention of dressing up?his wardrobe consists of Che Guevara T shirts and Teva sandals?and the day after the election, Leung was at the gates of the main government-office building protesting about polling irregularities. Instead of getting arrested, he was invited in. Quaffing a beer at a bar the next day, he chuckled: "I think I can get used to this...
...people my age should be involved in politics. I plan to spend my fall working to get rid of George W. Bush. But I have two and a half more years at this place, and I want to enjoy them. I want to experience college life in all its beer-stained, sleep-deprived, grease-soaked glory. I want to look at my friends as friends, not potential allies. I want to go to parties to dance and drink (coffee, of course) and meet people, not to find future comrades or plot strategy for the next action. I love The Movement...
...next day, a Republican media representative attempted to assuage the notoriously demanding press, assuring journalists in the affected section that the “disingenuous filmmaker” would not be making an encore performance at the convention. (Free beer would have helped...
...design just to cook dinner") and even Marianne, the French Uncle Sam: "This being France, instead of a bearded old uncle who looks as if he should be advertising fried chicken, they have a seminaked woman." The book also imparts practical advice. If you order café au lait, beer or water at a restaurant, you're likely to get skinned; instead, demand a crème, a demi or a carafe de l'eau, as the French do. To wiggle out of a house purchase, ask your bank to deny you a mortgage. At dinner, don't commit...
...every 10 Dubliners either worked for Guinness or was supported by someone who did. The company was a classic paternalistic employer: it built affordable housing for its workers, and provided pensions, health care and education benefits long before they were the norm. Employees even received an allowance of free beer. "That aspect is gone - the caring, sharing company," says Glennon wistfully. "Everyone knows that you're just part of a multinational." Maybe so, but in the cutthroat environment of today's beer market, being part of a multinational is all but essential. Most Western beer markets are flat - Guinness sales...