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...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...
...resistance, not only from the opposition, but even from members of his own coalition. That's why meeting with Del Ponte required a certain degree of courage from Kostunica, because there are a lot of people in the opposition and among government supporters who'd prefer to see these things buried. So the visit marked the beginning of the real debate in Serbia about war crimes...
Since the suggested distribution keeps three former division rivals together in every division but the NFC West, there is very little room for contention. Although some owners, namely those of the newer southeastern teams, would prefer radical geographic realignment, there is no indication that any such plan is being considered...
...person who has worked at home for five years, I didn't need a study to tell me the two spheres are on a collision course. But as I fret over whether my frenzied, fragmented existence truly represents progress, I see that my kids plainly prefer our blended life to the days when I went to an office for 10 hours at a stretch. What I notice: pink frosting crusted under my fingernails as I type. What they notice: the cupcakes I delivered to school...
...right, of course, about the third alternative, and a very sensible one it is—working out some system of fooling the grader, although I think I should prefer the world “impressing.” We admit to being impressionable, but not to being hypercredulous simps. His first two tactics for system being, his Vague Generalities and Artful Equivocation, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince Crimson-reading graders (there are a few, and we tell our friends) that the time has come to tighten the screws just a bit more...