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...Chinese well remember the disastrous boycott of the Moscow Olympics in 1980 after Russia invaded Afghanistan. A bit of military adventurism with China's nemesis, Taiwan, seems more unlikely between today and 2008. Now that Beijing will play host to the world, it might also have to tone down its anti-Western rants against "hegemonic" powers like the U.S. And, if leaders are again faced with massive demonstrations, expect them to look harder for a compromise before issuing the shoot-to-kill order. None of these constraints will lead to sudden democratic reform, but University of California professor Richard Baum...
...Despite Disney's spin, Internet chat rooms reflect a certain hostility. Hundreds have joined a thread titled, Committee to Boycott Pearl Harbor. One contributor gripes: "They'll probably make a movie called Hiroshima next, in which heroic American soldiers bomb those evil Japanese and save the world." Another writes: "In Armageddon, you could excuse the message that America is number one because it's science fiction. But Pearl Harbor looks to be pure propaganda...
...defamatory postings but refuses to take action, then he can be held responsible," says Yasutaka Machimura, a law professor at Asia University in Tokyo. When loyal Channel 2 users heard of Nippon Life's legal action, however, they launched vicious online attacks against the company and called for a boycott...
...Chavez himself came to Boston in 1973, leading a protest march along the Freedom Trail in Boston, in support of his UFW boycott of A&P supermarkets...
...pain at the pump has put Big Oil in the profiteering spotlight again, albeit with an Internet twist. At least one widely distributed chain e-mail encourages readers to boycott stations operated by ExxonMobil, the largest gasoline retailer in the U.S. Exxon's profits roared 44% higher in the first quarter, to $5 billion, on fattened profit margins. The 27 largest energy firms in the U.S. earned $14.1 billion in the fourth quarter of 2000--more than double their profits in the same period a year earlier, reports the Energy Information Agency. Of course, there were no complaints while Exxon...