Word: bras
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...true - and many in the Brazilian media "are skeptical that this could have happened without the Lula government giving Zelaya some sort of signal that he would be welcome" at the embassy, says Paulo Sotero, director of the Brazil Institute at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. - Brasília finds itself in the kind of diplomatic spotlight it once shunned. Chávez never misses a chance to thumb his nose at U.S. influence in Latin America, and since he'd grown impatient with what he considered the Obama Administration's too tepid efforts to lean...
...best: At Balenciaga, Nicolas Ghesquière's cascading drapes and lace bras resurrected the decade's after-5 cocktail glamour...
...history. I’ve also just had this flash about the Abu Ghraib torture scandal. These guys were hazed and forced to perform sex with each other; the photographs are shocking. And all of a sudden I realized that they’re wearing hula skirts and coconut bras. [The guards are] making this equation with being wild and primitive. It’s a dark side of how white people relate to other cultures.The New Visiting Faculty Exhibition is on display at the Carpenter Center until September...
...liberation and equality with men. Women's shape and size did not matter. Nowadays, young girls are expected to be liberated, clever, independent and physically perfect. By refusing to unveil their bodies they are rebelling against unrealistic expectations in the same way as their mothers did by burning their bras. Shame on you, South Africa! Anne Favier-Townsend, LUTON, ENGLAND
...Washington. The problem with the shift on coups is that Latin America now expects action to back it up. Honduras is Obama's first hemispheric crisis. There are obviously higher White House priorities right now, and Obama insists he's diligently working for a negotiated solution. But diplomats from Brasília to Mexico City say they fear he's only half-heartedly pressuring Honduras' new government to let Zelaya back in to finish his term, a perception that could squander the trust he's built. That might create problems down the road - for America and the Americas alike...