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...That’s because I was in São Paulo, Brazil, attending a Festa Junina, one of a series of fairs held throughout June to celebrate the birthdays of three saints that fall within the month. This one, however, bore more resemblance to the West Virginia State Fair that I attended last summer to anything I had expected to see in Brazil. From the western-style lettering to the singer with the perfect Garth Brooks accent, I could have been in Texas. But the booths served suco de cana and churrasco, and the t-shirts under the cowboy...
...After three weeks in Brazil, I have found that appropriation and contradiction often typify Brazilian society and culture. Like feijoada, the concoction of meats enveloped in beans with which Brazilians so identify, Brazilian culture consumes many foreign and extraneous elements and makes them its own. Sometimes the mix is inconsistent, and there are some unlikely amalgamations. Here, the first and third worlds are often on the same block: in some parts of the skyline, chic apartment buildings seem to ascend out of seas of squat favelas, the urban slums that dot the urban landscape. Though oft-publicized violent crime...
...getting this close to actual policy,” said Hariri Professor of International Political Economy Dani Rodrik ’79, who has taught alongside Unger at the Kennedy School. “He’s been involved in politics on and off in Brazil for sometime…but this is obviously a tremendous chance for him to actually be in a position where he can actually get things done...
Though this is his first ministerial position, Unger is no newcomer to policy adivising in Brazil, according to Ricardo Reisen de Pinho, a senior researcher at Harvard Business School’s Latin America Research Center, which is based in Buenos Aires. Reisen de Pinho said in an e-mailed statement that “Unger has been a close adviser [to] several controversial Brazilian politicians” and has devised “innovative political ideas for the country” in the past...
...radical salon crowd in Victorian England for his mix of egalitarianism, insurgent tactics and rugged sex appeal - a forerunner of Argentine Marxist Che Guevara. Though T shirts may be rare, after his death Garibaldi's name would adorn monuments, towns and mountain ranges from Rome to Russia, Canada to Brazil...