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...first love, however, was soccer. The Nigerian national team of his youth, nicknamed the ‘Super Eagles,’ had not yet evolved into the World Cup contender of the early ’90s, and so young Nigerian boys cast their eyes west to Brazil, where Péle was capturing the world’s imagination...

Author: By Alex Mcphillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Frosh Eyes Next Goal | 3/7/2007 | See Source »

...PAULO Even though the Asics Gel Kinsei ($373) costs more than most other sneakers in Brazil, its launch caused wait lists throughout the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The A List: Sneakers | 2/27/2007 | See Source »

...just the clothes that are socially conscious. Its line of Inara spa products is produced by women's cooperatives in the remote state of Maranho in northeastern Brazil, and its amethyst-and-garnet geometric drop earrings are made at a Nepalese technical school in a community consisting largely of underprivileged families from the lower castes. The workers at one of the company's small Costa Rican cooperatives?where each sewer and cutter of the brand's twill pants and chinos helps make financial decisions?turned an exceptional profit last year and were able to give themselves a bonus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fair-Trade Fashion | 2/27/2007 | See Source »

...experience, Ratmansky assumed the helm of an organization that employs more than 200 dancers and coaches and is, this season, staging more than 200 performances at home and on tour. He also oversees the newly reinvigorated Bolshoi School, the company's legendary Moscow training grounds, and its annexes in Brazil and Australia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Retaking Center Stage | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

...latest exchange, boasts one of the best economics programs in the world, according to Hill.In addition to these programs, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies is working in conjunction with the OIP to oversee exchanges in the Americas. The Rockefeller Center’s exchange with Brazil expired in 2005. “Next year, we will be engaging with a program in Canada and Mexico,” says Erin E. Goodman, program officer at the Rockefeller Center. As a result of a grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), a program created...

Author: By Emily C. Graff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Freedom of Exchange | 2/21/2007 | See Source »

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