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A new promotion by McDonald's in Saudi Arabia, for example, may throw its management into a quiet apoplexy: The BBC reports that Saudi McDonald's franchise holders have announced that during the month of Ramadan, they'll donate 26 cents out of the price of each burger to Palestinian...
But such are the vagaries of globalization. Fast-food franchises are the Marines of globalization, always establishing the first beachhead in previously closed economies. And that means they're also accustomed to taking a lot of fire. A crowd of Cairo students looking to vent its rage against U.S. support...
That's why Sox fans keep coming back year after year, through thick and thin. Last season, the Red Sox had the highest-priced tickets in the majors, and still the team set a franchise record for attendance. As one Boston baseball scribe put it last Sunday, Red Sox "fans...
An idea as good as having famous people trace their hands and draw turkeys on them doesn't come along every day. But this year, as TIME gathered its brood for the fourth time, it was revealed that Butterball was doing the exact same thing. Intellectual-property suits, national boycotts...
There is no such thing as a perfect census or a perfect vote count - whether you do it by machine or hand or personal visits with candy and flowers. The Democrats yearn for something close to the Platonic ideal of counting everybody, whereas the Republicans are more laissez-faire about...