Word: bove
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...content to be a passive spectator, you have two alternatives: You could hop a flight down to Brazil's Porto Alegre for the rival World Social Forum, a gathering of globalization's discontents featuring the likes of French farmer Jose Bove, best known for his renovation-by-tractor of a French McDonald's outlet to protest imports of U.S. beef. The guys at Davos go skiing between sessions; the Porto Alegre crowd prefer something a little more active - on their first night, 1,000 activists occupied a local Monsanto laboratory to protest genetically modified food...
SENTENCED. JOSE BOVE, 47, media-savvy French sheep farmer and anti-globalization hero; to three months in jail, for ransacking a half-built McDonald's last year in Millau, France...
...particularly pretty. I believe it has two McDonald's. (And in the esprit d'egalite two Quicks, France's fast food counterpart.) It has a wildly popular Ben & Jerry's, Citibank, Planet Hollywood and even a Chicago Pizza Pie Factory. It's enough to make anyone cheer for Jose Bove. And I did. After all, France is Europe's first Republic and America's oldest ally. It has an entirely free educational system and a universal health care system that the World Health Organization ranked top ten in the world. In France, they eat cheese, red meat and red wine...
...JOSE BOVE French farmer who vandalized a McDonald's goes on trial, hailed as hero. Vive le foie gras...
...Hector C. Bove, '00, class treasurer and a Crimson editor, said he hoped the publicity would encourage more people to join last night's celebration at the Hong Kong...