Thanks to Jillian and Ash. Eric Scheid took it a couple of steps
further, and then cracked it. The Link Institute was mute on auDA v.
Elz, but pretty good on this one!
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/4849/isnews.html#McD's
>From the New York Times of Sunday December 8, 1996
"I see that Tom Friedman writes a piece about McDonald's. Excellent theory
and I was impressed to see it in writing.
"The theory goes as follows: No two countries that both have a McDonald's
have ever fought a war against each other. ...
The NYT site confirms that citation:
Date: December 8, 1996, Sunday
Foreign Affairs Big Mac I
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Source: The New York Times
Section: Editorial Desk
769 words Op-Ed
Go to Free Abstract
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FREE ABSTRACT
Abstract
Thomas I Friedman Op-Ed article argues that no two countries that
both have a McDonald's have ever fought a war against each other;
says it may be that once a country becomes sufficiently integrated
with the global economy, its capacity for troublemaking is restricted
and it is propelled on course toward democracy and peace (M)
Lead Paragraph
So I've had this thesis for a long time and came here to Hamburger
University at McDonald's headquarters to finally test it out. The
thesis is this: No two countries that both have a McDonald's have
ever fought a war against each other. The McDonald'..
For the record, Google's better than MetaCrawler (which has been
going backwards very fast as it loses the last vestiges of its campus
origins. Time to change ...).
From a book review at
http://www.cbi.cgey.com/network/bookreviews/friedman.html, it was
mentioned in Thomas L. Friedman 'The Lexus and the Olive Tree' (New
York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999) ISBN 0-374-19203-0.
His bio at:
http://www.lafayette.edu/press/releases/landisfriedman.html says:
>One of the world's most distinguished and accomplished journalists, New
>York Times foreign affairs columnist Thomas L. Friedman, a two-time
>Pulitzer Prize winner and recipient of the National Book Award, ...
From http://www.csis.org/ics/dia/intnelso.html it was attributed to
"Tom Freedman" as early as August 1997.
It's also mentioned (without attribution) at
http://www.goodthink.com/harris/bh.radio1.html apparently on 15 May
1997.
http://www.prospect.org/columns/kuttner/bk990530.html of 1999 argues
that "The ink was scarcely dry on the recent thesis of author and
columnist Thomas Friedman that no two countries with McDonalds
franchises have ever gone to war with each other when U.S. bombs
nearly hit the McDonalds in Belgrade. Dream on". [Last I knew, 2
years was plenty of time for ink to dry; and dammit it's genuinely
*hard* to come up with a new idea for a column every week!!]
More reasonably, from http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/demowar.htm:
"Unfortunately for world peace, the Big Mac Attack Rule finally broke
down in 1999. On 24 March 1999, NATO began its air attack on
Yugoslavia. Faced with angry nationalism, vandalism and boycotts, all
the McDonalds in Yugoslavia shut their doors on 26 March ...".
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