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...impact in the life of families and our society is much lower than it was before decriminalization," says Joao Castel-Branco Goulao, Portugual's "drug czar" and president of the Institute on Drugs and Drug Addiction, adding that police are now able to re-focus on tracking much higher level dealers and larger quantities of drugs...
...come from, think again. At least that was the message behind an event at Winthrop House last night in which two House residents discussed the results of genetic testing that traced their roots to distant, and in one case unexpected, corners of the globe. Pedro Jorge Gomes Castelo-Branco, a Winthrop House tutor of Portuguese descent, and House Master Mandana Sassanfar, whose family is from Iran, presented the result of the tests as part of a race and diversity event that focused on the “interconnectedness of the human population.” The pair had sent cheek...
...Seamus McKiernan performed well. Freese tallied five kills on .500 hitting while McKiernan led the team with 15 kills and five blocks. But the story of the night was the play of two NJIT sophomores. Leonardo Paludo and Eduardo Welter—both hailing from Escola Barao de Rio Branco in Balneario Camboriu, Brazil—combined for 29 kills, 17 digs, and 7 aces to power the Highlanders past the Crimson. “Those two kids are quality,” Harvard coach Chris Ridolfi said. “They played with confidence, and we played like...
...MAN’S LAND. Bosnian director Danis Tanovic’s debut film about the recent Balkan wars won Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards last year. With Rene Bitorajac and Branco Djuric as two enemy soldiers trapped in the same trench. Bosnian and French with English subtitles. Free admission, with an introduction by director Tanovic. Wednesday, Feb. 26, 7 p.m. Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy...
High-minded as fado may be in Branco's hands, the style had the rotten luck to be endorsed by the dictators who ruled Portugal for almost 50 years. For many Portuguese, the genre carried the odor of fascism long after a 1974 revolution restored democracy. "It took 20 years for [fado] to grow up again, to be civilized music again," says Branco. Perhaps that accounts for the sense that even when she sings of desolation, Branco's delivery seems animated by the pleasure of recovering something lost. For her listeners, the pleasure lies in hearing a venerable art form...