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...indigenize" themselves abroad, of course, fast-food chains also face pressure to march in step with the passions of the natives - even when that involves biting the hand that reared it. Last year, ads published by McDonald's France used "Ugly American" caricatures to plant the Golden Arches firmly on the European side of the conflict with the U.S. over beef imports. "What I don't like about McDonald's France," says an overweight U.S. cowboy in one ad, "is that it doesn't buy American beef." The ad specifies that French McDonald's uses only French beef, to "guarantee...
Harvard's big men also neutralized the threat created by the Huskies' 6'10 center George Aygar. After a first-half interior defense that Prasse-Freeman described as "porous", Mayshak, sophomore forward Sam Winter and even 10th man Brian Sigafoos, a 6'10 JV call-up, got tough and won the battle of the paint. Harvard scored more points in the paint than Northeastern (20-14), and also limited the Huskies to four second-chance points...
Anne Pusey interrupts her husband and says that she always thought that he was not sympathetic enough to students who opposed the Vietnam War. Pusey disagrees, saying even in hindsight the undergraduate who resigned from the University to join the army was the "undergraduate of real quality...
...first, and perhaps most important, contest of the new election campaign will be the battle for the Likud party's nomination. Party leader Ariel Sharon believes he's the man for the job, and has been agitating in recent weeks for an even more aggressive Israeli response to the Palestinian uprising, including expanded use of selective assassinations and cutting off water and electricity supplies to Palestinian territories. But Sharon also has to contend with a high negative rating among many Israelis, made worse by his provocative visit to Jerusalem's Temple Mount two months ago, which set off the current...
...Palestinian uprising will create a dramatic backdrop to the election expected to be held late in the Spring at the earliest. Likud will play to Israeli fears arising out of the current violence, charging that Barak's peacemaking efforts had been naïve and that Israel needed an even harsher response to Palestinian actions. Barak will stand firm on the principle that Israel has no alternative but to make peace with the Palestinians, and will remind the electorate of the conspicuous failures of both Netanyahu and Sharon to make progress on this front...