Word: brazile
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...nationals a club could field in a game. In 1995 a decision of the European Court of Justice invalidated those protectionist rules, and since then, the best clubs have snapped up talent from all over the world. At Real, Beckham will play alongside established stars from England, Portugal, France, Brazil and the Congo. The managers of two of England's leading soccer clubs, Liverpool and Arsenal, in London, are both French...
...than a simple majority. "It's a very high hoop to have to jump through," says Margi Prideaux, Australian director of the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society. But the breakthrough came in the bold new Mexican-led Berlin Initiative - co-sponsored by 12 anti-whaling European countries, plus Kenya, Brazil, the U.S., Australia and New Zealand. Its architect, Andrés Rozental, a former Deputy Foreign Minister and ex-ambassador to the U.K., had mobilized support from "like- minded" countries - and signing up southern hemisphere nations was crucial. "The notion that comes from Japan, that it's just the rich...
...Peck received five Oscar nominations and won the best actor award in 1962 for his portrayal of Atticus Finch, a small-town lawyer battling racism in To Kill a Mockingbird. Although not all his roles were likable?Peck played a mad scientist who clones Hitler in The Boys from Brazil?he once said, "I don't think I could stay interested for a couple of months in a character of mean motivation...
...American anti-apartheid movement, traveling the country speaking at college campuses. This did not, however, deter her from going to South Africa during a state of emergency to do field research for her dissertation—a comparative study of labor unions in the democratic opposition in Brazil and South Africa...
...Born in Brazil of Lebanese parents and educated in France's elite engineering schools, the charismatic, bushy-browed, nattily dressed Ghosn is the quintessential global executive. He earned his reputation as a turnaround artist at Michelin, which dispatched him to fix ailing operations in South America and then gave him the job of restructuring Michelin North America after it bought Uniroyal in 1990. By the time Renault hired him and sent him to Tokyo to fix Nissan (which Renault controls), he had picked up five languages (Japanese is his sixth), a blunt decision-making style and a knack for blending...