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There was always a bit of a nod and wink in France's punishment of its most famous contemporary saboteur. After all, while sheep farmer Jose Bove's ransacking of a McDonald's outlet in the Montpellier town of Millau two years ago was simple hooliganism in the eyes of the law, it was nonetheless overwhelmingly popular in a nation that mans the barricades at the first sign of U.S. cultural encroachment. Even Prime Minister Lionel Jospin termed Bove's Quixotic crusade "just...
...passive spectator, you have two alternatives: You could hop a flight down to Brazil's Porto Alegre for the rival World Social Forum, a gathering of globalization's discontents featuring the likes of French farmer Jose Bove, best known for his renovation-by-tractor of a French McDonald's outlet to protest imports of U.S. beef. The guys at Davos go skiing between sessions; the Porto Alegre crowd prefer something a little more active - on their first night, 1,000 activists occupied a local Monsanto laboratory to protest genetically modified food...
...recognition anyway, nor for the sweet ink on the back page of The Crimson. I do it because I love it, because it's a legitimate outlet for the under-appreciated exercise of "philangeal" dexterity, and I do it because my gelatinously weak will does not let me stop doing...
...other file-sharing service that have the music industry so concerned. "I don't have to make money any more. But some of my friends who aren't as secure in their careers are worried." He also thinks that the Internet, by providing small acts an outlet to have their music heard, will be the source of musical innovation in the future."Every new thing that's happened in pop music has not happened on a major label," he says. "Sam Phillips and Sun Records, Sugar Hill and hip-hop. The guys on the little labels were out there first...
...guys in the second half did a superior job of contesting shots," Sullivan said. "We really tried to slow the rebounder and challenge the outlet pass...