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...squad to a 8-0 mark and a gold medal. Dawn Staley, a former USA National Team assistant coach, will serve as head coach of the team. The tournament includes eight national teams from the Western Hemisphere, and will be held July 20-24 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The U.S. team will tip off first on July 20 against Colombia, and will play Argentina and Cuba on the following two days. The tournament semifinals and finals are scheduled for July...
...longtime critics by the positive note on which he was beginning his now two-year-old papacy. There have, though, been intermittent reminders that the old Ratzinger thinking lives on inside the person of the Pope, including his message at the beginning of his current five-day trip to Brazil: Catholic politicians who support abortion rights risk excommunication...
...fact, with communism gone as an historical antagonist to the Church, there may be more room for social activists and the Roman hierarchy to seek solutions together. It seemed only natural this week for the Pope and Brazil's leftist president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a longtime ally of the liberation theology movement, to agree on making a central priority of shrinking of the gap between rich and poor, and challenging the "mercantilization" of human beings in an age of globalization. Benedict, on Friday, led the canonization ceremony in Sao Paulo for the first-ever Brazilian-born saint...
...Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, one of the envoys, said in an interview Wednesday that Ban wants to get a picture of the concerns of leaders of the nations most responsible for climate change, those most affected by global warming, and the major developing countries, such as China, India and Brazil...
...countries of Eastern Europe into the European Union is something that will reap great rewards in the future. I'd like to see Europe and America coming together to make the Doha trade talks work. I'm pressing for Europe and America to make proposals that would allow Brazil, India, the developing countries to come behind a trade deal that I believe we could agree on by the summer. That would be a practical example of how Europe and America, despite all the difficulties of the last few years, could come together to make sure the world is actually...