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...year industry. As negotiators seek a solution everyone can agree to by the March 31 deadline, agricultural interests and drug companies from the wealthy world show no signs of retreating. But if the WTO fails to make real progress soon, they may lose a more important war. Bring 'em All Back Home The current diplomatic flap over Iraq may be sparking American threats to boycott French companies, but one French organization hopes to siphon off some of the steam. Provence Promotion - an association that recruits new businesses to the Marseilles area - is trying to lure successful expats back from America...
...than they did before," wrote Daniel Defoe of trans-Atlantic slavetraders in 1702. In 1695 "Oroonoko", a popular London play, depicted plantation life and a bloody slave insurrection with striking sympathy: "If you saw the bloody Cruelties, / They execute on every slight offence . . . / Your heart wou'd bleed for 'em." In 1703 the Boston Puritan Samuel Sewall wrote against slavery in "The Selling of Joseph", and as early as 1667 his predecessor, Michael Wigglesworth, had contended that God was color-blind: "Although Affliction tan the Skin, / Such saints are Beautiful within...
...terrorists brought this war to us - and now we're takin' it back to them," he told the troops, leaning an elbow on the lectern, squinting crosswise at the camera, tossing a breathy Clint Eastwood chuckle. "We're on their trail, we're smokin' them out, we've got 'em on the run." One imagined the French Foreign Minister watching this lunch-hour martial spectacle and choking on his baguette...
...em are young and scared to be going over," says Rachael Mays of the Sleeping Dragon tattoo parlor. "They come in for their meat tags. You know, dog tags for the skin. Their name, rank, serial number, religion, blood type and gas-mask size. They want 'em in case they're blown in half. Then at least some part of them can come back to their folks...
...suggested that maybe he should stop the musical aggression before he alienates people, or, even worse, things gets deadly, 50 laughs and says, "Why should I? I love being the bad guy. When I watch a movie, I always root for the bad guy. Usually I just turn 'em off before they end," he says, "because the bad guy always seems...