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...adapting the menu and the marketing to reflect local tastes and concerns. Hence the Indian "lamburger" or the fact that beer is served in McDonald's in Germany and France. The object of the globalizing corporation is to "indigenize" itself as quickly as possible. McDonald's may have been forbidden fruit when it first rolled into post-communist Moscow in 1991, but if all goes according to plan the next generation will know it simply as a local burger joint where the staff, for some unknown reason, smile more than is the norm in Russia...
...Gephardt organized a Friday-afternoon conference call for Lieberman and House Democrats. About 120 phoned in to hear Lieberman's pep talk. At 4 p.m., as he was making his case to the members, Gore strategist Bob Shrum broke in with some startling news: the Florida Supreme Court had forbidden Harris to certify the vote on Saturday. The court wanted to hear arguments from both sides on Monday. Lieberman responded with a gleeful bark: "All right!" It wasn't over...
...intense political, social and economic engagement, by a running critique on the commodification of art objects and by the involvement of the audience. Whether in performance art, mail art, language art or manipulation of found objects, these artists saw their work as vehicles for dissent, stand-ins for forbidden speech and catalysts for thought. This is, in itself, another major problem with Global Conceptualism: the contradiction of a museum exhibition of works of art which were intended as protests against museums. Yoko Ono's "Painting in Three Stanzas," for instance, was meant as a set of instructions for the creation...
...just settlement of the refugee problem. Despite this resolution, Israel has continued to expand settlements for Israelis on occupied land while Palestinian refugees remain in camps dating back to 1967 and even 1948. Israel has also destroyed Palestinian homes in response to attacks, a method of collective punishment forbidden by the Fourth Geneva Convention...
...pleaded with Israeli troops not to open fire and of the ambulance driver trying to rescue them. Many of those wounded in this conflict, including children and medical personnel, have been injured in the head and upper body, which may indicate that they were specifically targeted--another act forbidden by the Geneva Convention...