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05/02/02

Down with "LEPENIS!"

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In a city used to protests, Chanel blends with Che T-shirts as more than a million turn out for the mother of all May Day rallies.

The French do love an excuse to march dans les rues. About every few days, wending our way around Paris, we find inexplicable traffic blockages, heralded by truckloads of idling police buses. The cops in riot gear occasionally get out and smoke on the sidewalk, but otherwise they do nothing to either harass or encourage the protesters. Continue reading at Salon

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