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...best? "They will never forget that great player," he said. "If you stop when you are playing poorly, people will remember that bad player." That's why I retired--for the first time--in 1974 after winning the 1970 World Cup for the third time with Brazil. I was 34 years...
Then all the European teams--Real Madrid, Milan, Benefica and others--came to me with proposals to start playing again. But I thought that would be like returning to the field in Brazil. Another proposal came from the presidents of Warner Brothers and Warner Records [now, like TIME, part of AOL Time Warner] in the States: "We're trying to get soccer going in the U.S., and we're going to start a big team, the New York Cosmos. Why don't you come and play with us?" That, I thought, would be a new experience. The Cosmos were giving...
Anxieties that Microsoft may not be in a penitent frame of mind emerged last month when Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer insisted at a press conference in Brazil that Microsoft had plenty of competition in the software business. Seeming to ignore the findings of a federal district court and a unanimous appeals court in this case, Ballmer told reporters, "I don't know what a monopoly is until somebody tells...
...right: Brazilians were mixing local rhythms with international rock styles well before his father, Caetano Veloso, helped pioneer the Tropicalia movement in the '60s. And if Brazil continues to produce albums as delicate and emotionally complex as Music Typewriter, that country's music will occupy as honored a place in the 21st century as it did in the 20th...
...album with yowling vocals, jangling guitars and cool, carefree melodies that stay with you like tattoos. The New York City quintet--singer Julian Casablancas, bassist Nikolai Fraiture, guitarists Nick Valensi and Albert Hammond Jr. and drummer Fabrizio Moretti--has started drawing queries from journalists from as far away as Brazil, as well as advance raves from the U.S. press. "We try not to pay too much attention to things like that," says Valensi. "It could be a trap, to believe what people write about you." The Strokes may be young, but they're clearly wise beyond their years...