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...degrees.El-Erian worked at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for nearly 15 years before leading the emerging markets research outfit at investment bank Salomon Smith Barney in London. In 1999, he moved to PIMCO, a leading bond manager in Newport Beach, Calif. with a strong emerging markets business.During the Brazilian financial crisis of 2002, El-Erian bucked conventional wisdom in contending that the country would improve its financial state and avoid defaulting on its loans, Heller recalled. He was proven right, leading to a big payoff for PIMCO—and boosting his prominence even higher.“He?...
...Night at the Hip-Hopera” and ccc’s “Revolved.” Otherwise, I just put iTunes on party shuffle and see what comes up: obscure musicals (“Blood Brothers”), Patsy Cline, the Yonder Mountain String Band, a Brazilian band called Skank, the Pillows, the Notre Dame Glee Club, the fabulousness that is 80s pop, a gay country duo called Y’ALL... My aunt and uncle are musicians (my aunt Kristi Rose started out in the New York rockabilly scene in the mid-80s; my uncle Fats...
...there who believe that education can be a “neutral,” apolitical pursuit—that learning can take place in a vacuum, independent of “reality” and its “problems.” But as the late Brazilian educator Paulo Freire brilliantly argued, the claim that learning should be separate from transforming our world is a political claim itself. It is equally political—yet infinitely more ethical—to make the case as Freire did that learning should ultimately be about developing our minds...
Sport? When it began in 1993, the first UFC was meant to be a gimmicky showcase for Brazilian-style jujitsu (and its superiority to other fighting styles), but it quickly devolved into a circus. Wild audiences screamed for matchups of pugilists against wrestlers against kickboxers, a Final Fantasy--video-game array of combatants, except for the very real blood that spattered on the mat of the octagon...
...Sunnis threatens to spill into a horrendous civil war, with wider implications outside Iraq. And one thing is sure: appointing the same exiled career politicians to power isn't going to solve anything. Abhishek Bhattacharyya Bangalore, India A Deadly Policy The killing of Jean Charles de Menezes, the Brazilian man the London police mistakenly suspected to be a terrorist and shot, raises important questions [Aug. 29]. Why did British police institute a shoot-to-kill policy for suspected suicide bombers when disabling them would be enough? Why pump eight bullets into a suspect when one or two would have been...