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...both Campos and UFW organizer Daisy M. Rooks said they are not advocating a strawberry boycott...
...found in an address book seized in a prostitution-ring inquiry. "I never paid for a woman in my life," De Niro told the newspaper Le Monde, adding that he would never return to France and would tell his friends to stay away, too. He also said he would boycott the Cannes Film Festival and send back the Legion of Honor (one of France's highest civilian decorations) that he was awarded at last year's festival. Later, on a French TV talk show, De Niro changed his tune, saying he would indeed return to France this fall...
...before the opening ceremonies commenced, many snowboarders feared the Games would alter their subculture. Norwegian Terje Haakonsen, widely recognized as the best snowboarder in the world, opted to sit out Nagano altogether. Haakonsen even described I.O.C. president Juan Antonio Samaranch as an "Al Capone" figure. Samaranch shrugged off the boycott and said, "All I know is this: those who don't enter...
Certainly there is some evidence to support this position. Last November, students voted by a narow margin to end Harvard Dining Services' participation in the United Farm Workers boycott of California grapes grown on non-unionized farms. Beth A. Stewart '00 won election as president of the Undergraduate Council in what many interpreted as a shift away from the council's advocacy of controversial, if primarily symbolic, progressive positions over the last two years. And the Yard has not witnessed a large, '60s-style student rally since the battles in 1996 for comparative race and ethnic studies courses...
...months after it opened on Dec. 2, Starbucks is thriving despite a boycott against its introduction into the Square...