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To: Clappy who wrote (15520)	3/25/2003 1:02:53 PM
From: lifeisgood	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Boycott of American Goods Over Iraq War Gains Pace Bilateral boycotts will hurt other countries much more than the USA thanks to our ballooning trade deficit. best... LIG

To: Clappy who wrote (15520)	3/25/2003 1:10:01 PM
From: Threshold	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

My first hand experiences in Europe tell me that this boycott will spread like wildfire. When will Dubya realize that he is on a chessboard not a checkerboard?

To: Clappy who wrote (15520)	3/25/2003 1:15:31 PM
From: abuelita	Respond to of 89467

Merci beaucoup "America's recent epidemic of France-bashing," says the Chicago Tribune, "may have reached its most absurd point [this month], when someone in New Orleans' French Quarter began circulating a petition to re-christen the place the Freedom Quarter." The paper's writers have outlined the U.S. cultural debt to France: Art. "The proper name of Frederic Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty is Liberty Enlightening the World -- which pretty much describes what the French have been up to in artistic matters for more than 1,000 years." Food. "If it weren't for the French, Americans probably still would be eating like the Brits." Literary criticism. "Paris, as Ernest Hemingway once noted and others quickly echoed, is where the 20th century happened." Film. "It was in France that the camera projector was invented and where the first movies were shown publicly -- by the Lumiere brothers in 1895 Paris -- and it has been French critics and filmmakers throughout cinema history who have led the way in taking movies seriously, as art." Jazz. "[I]t took the confluence of several cultures -- including the French -- to make possible the creation of the new art form." Dance. "Though invented by Italians and perfected by Russians, ballet wouldn't be ballet without the French, who gave the art much of its style and content and virtually all of its technical vocabulary."