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...Party - whose slogan this campaign is "Portugal Needs a Right Arm" - and with the Communist Party, each of which has 15 seats in the outgoing parliament. The center-right Social Democrats have 81. Polls say the man most likely to replace Guterres is José Manuel Durão Barroso, a 45-year-old lawyer who became PSD leader in 1999. He insists he has arrived, well, just in time. "In the context of Europe, the country is in an almost emergency situation," he said last week...
Portugal's official 2001 budget deficit was 2.2%, enough to stir the ire of the European Commission. Durão Barroso says wryly that this was "only a slight variation of 100%" on the government's 1.1% prediction and that it's probably higher because of trick accounting. He won't say where he would wield the ax but claims he will be tough on the state-funded institutions that grow around Portuguese governments like suckerfish around the mouth of a whale. "There were 130 of these six years ago," he says. "The Guterres government added another 78. Most...
...Barroso is certain he will win on March 17; "the question is by how much." It is a vital question. If he cannot pass the 115-seat mark - and that would require the PSD to score another 35 seats - he could be in a similar fix to the one that led Guterres...
...think of Brazil without feeling certain rhythms. In the early 20th century, the country gave the world warmhearted samba and such performers as Carmen Miranda and Ary Barroso; in the 1950s and '60s it was soft-swaying bossa nova and Antonio Carlos (Tom) Jobim, Joao and Astrud Gilberto. Then, in the late 1960s and '70s, the Tropicalia movement marched in, armed with rock guitars and rebel lyrics and led by Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso and Gal Costa...
...comprehensive brutality. By the end he has been betrayed by a very modern Mengele of a surgeon (Michael Palin), rescued by the revolutionary Tuttle (Robert De Niro)--but, alas, it is just another dream, Sam's last one --and lobotomized with nothing in his mind but the old Ary Barroso tune Brazil...