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...What's more, after his return to Rome, word came over the weekend that Benedict's pick to take over the Vatican office for the clergy, Brazilian Cardinal Claudio Hummes, had opened the door to a future discussion on celibacy in the priesthood. This came just weeks after the Pope held a meeting with Vatican cardinals that explicitly reaffirmed the Roman Church's longstanding ban on married clergy...
...Blue Mosque if he hadn't had Regensburg damage to repair. Similarly, the Vatican seemed to momentarily reopen the celibacy question with an impromptu meeting of Cardinals last month, which was just as quickly closed by a public statement saying that the current policy stands. Now Hummes, the Brazilian Cardinal about to take over the Congregation for the Clergy, has reopened it again. We can't know if Hummes - who on Monday clarified that the issue was not an immediate priority - was still a bit naive to Roman customs. But it is evidence of a more open intellectual climate under...
...breakfast the following morning, Anupam Yog, a consultant at India Brand Equity Foundation, a quasi-government body behind selling India and Indian companies abroad, acknowledged the problems. On a recent visit to Brazil with Singh he was taken by the high crime rates in Brazilian cities. "That's what income disparity can lead to and we need to avoid that here," he says. He agrees that India's success story is still full of qualifications: hundreds of millions still surviving on less than a dollar a day, tens of millions still illiterate and unschooled. "We don't shy away from...
...such as China and Brazil are also heading overseas. From 2002 to 2006, for example, India made 176 investments in Europe, according to Invest in France Agency, a government-backed investment-promotion group. China wasn't far behind with 114 deals over the same period. And last week, a Brazilian steel group?Companhia Sider?rgica Nacional?challenged Tata Steel's bid for Corus by making a preliminary $8.5 billion offer, 4.4% more than Tata's buyout proposal. Says Rajat Gupta, former global managing director of McKinsey & Company and the first Indian-born CEO of a large U.S. multinational...
...Alala” Dir. Cat Solen Cute! Hip! Irreverent! Mildly clever! Vaguely obscure! And Brazilian! That pretty much sums up all of the hype surrounding hipster-in-a-can band CSS, which stands for “Cansei de Ser Sexy.” That’s right—not just tirelessly sexy, but tired of being sexy. And for good reason—their image is so perfectly contrived for the moment that it must be exhausting to keep up. Everything about them just begs for awkward worship from awkward fans. Doll-faced half-Japanese poster-girl...