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...league's rosters, compared with only 6% a decade ago. A third of the 18 players chosen for the All-Star Weekend's Rookie-Sophomore game came from overseas, among them standouts like San Antonio Spurs guard Tony Parker (France), Denver Nuggets forward Nene Hilario (Brazil) and Orlando Magic guard Gordan Giricek (Croatia...
...counts as another south-of-the-border coup. These films are worth the hype, and then some. And for once, they have plenty of regional company. Years used to separate successes like Argentina's The Official Story (1985), the only Latin film to win the foreign-language Oscar, and Brazil's poignant Central Station (1998), the Oscar-nominated tale of a cynical Rio woman who helps a street urchin find his family. But starting with Central Station, Latin American directors have found what many critics are calling buena onda, a consistent "groove" of relevant, top-drawer filmmaking that uses distinctly...
Despite the accidental blows that will inevitably come with any martial art, a lack of physical contact is actually at the heart of the Capoeira tradition. Brought to Brazil from Africa by Angolan slaves who needed to defend themselves from their newly appointed masters, Capoeira evolved as a self-defense mechanism masked as a recreational dance. “Now I can literally say that I dance like I fight, and I fight like I dance,” says Krieger...
...forum was set against the backdrop of the second World Social Forum (WSF), which took place last month in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and from which Chomsky recently returned...
...last month, Lula warned regional PT leaders, "We can't fail in this economic situation." Lula realizes that an erstwhile socialist has to work that much harder to prove he's a market-friendly President. Revenue gaps recently forced Palocci to slash $4 billion from the $75 billion budget (Brazil's most austere in a decade), while Meirelles raised interest rates 4.5 points to 26.5% in hopes of keeping 2003 inflation to single digits. Lula won praise across the political spectrum when, instead of trying to please everyone, he postponed the purchase of fighter jets in order to boost funding...