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"There are as many ways of responding to the global financial crisis as there are plummeting 401(k)s, but French branding firm Al Dente at least has the merit of being clever. The company is issuing a line of tongue-in-cheek crisis-slogan stickers and tees next week at (where else?) Colette, a boutique that isn\u2019t exactly famous for its recessionary prices. Those on a tighter budget can go to the company\u2019s Web site and suggest their own quips and read those of others, all of which can be printed out and made into stickers. (The site recommends that you make them with your office\u2019s color copier\u2014taking care not to get caught\u2014which suggests somewhat hopefully that you\u2019ve still got an office to go to.) A working knowledge of French is necessary for some of the more complicated offerings, and at least a few are as willfully nonsensical en fran&amp;amp;#xE7;ais as in English. &amp;quot;Je voudrais un menu maxi criseburger avec potatoes et coca svp!&amp;quot; reads one, essentially ordering a crisis-burger Happy Meal. You\u2019d have to check with McDo (as the Gauls call the house of Ronald McDonald) to be sure, but we\u2019re guessing that one doesn\u2019t come with a toy prize.\n\nShirts and stickers available from Dec. 15 at Colette, 213 rue Saint-Honor\u00E9, Paris, (011) 33-1-55-35-33-90, colette.fr; to make your own stickers and view others, visit aldentelacrise.com\n\n MATTHEW SCHNEIER Photo: aldentelacrise.com"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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