Word: brazile
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...savage history of foreign wars and civil strife left the country little strength for nation building. In 1864 Paraguay blustered into the suicidal, six-year War of the Triple Alliance against Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay; out of a population of 525,000, only 220,000 survived, and only 28,000 of these were men. Again in the Chaco War of the 1930s, Paraguay took on Bolivia and won 20,000 sq. mi. of wilderness borderland?at a cost of one Paraguayan life for each square mile. Thus the prize won in 1954 by Stroessner, a veteran of the Chaco...
...towards George W. Bush, the incumbent Uncle Sam. Saudis, Swedes and Kiwis can hate Dubya, and thus protest against his folly in Iraq, while consuming the riches of U.S. commerce and culture. Some lands have the splendid fortune of a dignified presence to represent them: South Africa's Mandela, Brazil's P?l? and the U.K.'s Queen Elizabeth II. Others are stuck with rogues like Saddam, Gaddafi, Castro and Venezuela's Chavez...
...addition to her domestic volunteer work, Badaracco spent her summers in Ecuador and Bolivia, studied abroad in Chile her junior year, and taught English the year after college in Manaus, Brazil...
...months-and four foreign voyages-into his reign, the pontiff is methodically mapping out what will almost certainly be a shorter papacy than the 26-year reign of Pope John Paul II. He confirmed to reporters on the plane that he plans to take momentous trips to Turkey and Brazil. Back at headquarters, he also seems intent on moving forward with a reform of the Roman Curia hiearchy (see TIME.com on Monday). And while one does get the sense that the Holy Father is pacing himself (he has spent extended periods the last two summers at the relatively calm confines...
...think Google's decision to make the legal procedures go through the American justice system is a good thing, not because of Brazil but because of the world," said Julien Pain, director of the Internet freedom desk at Reporters Without Borders. "This way, if you make a request to Google in the U.S., the request can be supervised by American justice. This kind of procedure may seem useless in the case of Brazil, which is a democracy and respects human rights. But it's crucial when Google has to deal with repressive regimes. If a Chinese or a Syrian judge...