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INAUGURATED. LUIZ INACIO LULA DA SILVA, 57, as the first left-wing President of Brazil in 40 years; in Brasilia. A former factory worker and fiery trade-union leader, "Lula" swept to power in October with 61% of the vote. He has pledged to reduce corruption, improve education and reduce economic misery. (Brazil currently has a 12% inflation rate and debts that account for nearly 61% of its gdp.) Since October, the President-elect has tried to caution the public against having overly high expectations, but a recent poll found that 80% of Brazilians are hopeful his administration will...
...HONORED. RONALDO, 26, Brazilian football superstar; named by FIFA as World Footballer of the Year for the third time; in Madrid. Ronaldo scored both goals in Brazil's 2-0 victory against Germany in the final of the 2002 World Cup and was the tournament's leading scorer with eight goals...
...itself in a weave of dance, song and theater,” she says. “Everything is going to overlap and it’ll be hard to place it in a specific genre.” To assist with her project, Braxton-Brooks traveled to Brazil this past summer to study samba and capoeira—“a martial arts form that is disguised as dance,” she says...
...networking session for a new European left. Fifty-five thousand people from 88 countries gathered for five days of multi-lingual debate attempting to articulate their new-found unity. They continued a conversation sparked by Genoa and formalized at this spring’s World Social Forum in Brazil. The expectation of violence lay in the mischaracterization of the gathering as a “no-global” action. The people were the same. So were the slogans. But the purpose at hand was new: craft a positive vision. Un’ altra Europa è possibile, but what...
Maats, who was born in Saudi Arabia, raised in Brazil, Greece, New York and England, and attended the famed Eton, says one of the reasons he opted for the American college system was freer exchange between students and professors...