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...partners also had serious concerns. In an audit report dated March 28, 2003, Deloitte's Maltese office questioned a $7 billion intercompany transfer that is now known to have been fictitious. The Deloitte auditor in Brazil, Wanderley Olivetti, raised such a stink to the Milan office about Parmalat's Brazilian accounts that the matter went all the way up to Jim Copeland, then Deloitte's chief executive in New York City. "Sorry to trouble you this morning in a moment while you are clearly busy with other matters," Milan partner Mamoli wrote in a memo to Copeland, "but ... a major...
...said the group dispatched fluent Mandarin speakers to Boston’s Chinatown, sent Portuguese speakers to assist East Cambridge’s Brazilian community and stationed Spanish- and French-speaking volunteers in North Cambridge, home to many Latino and Haitian immigrants...
...Spain, for the moment, is where the battle rages fiercest. The Socialist - led government will allow homosexuals to marry and adopt children; the Church has called on Spanish Catholics to fight the legislation. Javier Garcia, 40, who wants to marry his Brazilian partner, Mario Almeida, thinks the Church's opposition is wrongheaded. Both men are Roman Catholic. "Most Christians think homosexuals should be able to get married," he says. Indeed, polls show that some 60% of Spaniards support legalizing gay marriage, and around 250,000 couples are awaiting the new law, which will be debated in parliament in the next...
...read Mehta's book, by chance, a few weeks ago in Rio de Janeiro, where 700 favelas, or officially designated slums, spread across the hillsides and seem ready to mud-slide down and swallow up the Sheraton hotel and the condo blocks beneath them. According to one Brazilian friend, 400,000 people arrive at the city's bus station every year, seeking a new life, only to find that all the jobs and houses?and lives?have been taken up by others like themselves. They can survive only by joining the underworld, and a child is seen as irresponsible...
...balmy day in July, Eliana Tranchesi stopped by the Balenciaga showroom in Paris to scrutinize the new season's handbags. With her honeyed mane, steely mien and enduring proclivity for body-skimming Dolce & Gabbana, Tranchesi is a familiar figure among the habitues of Europe's chicest ateliers. The Brazilian bombshell is the president and owner of Daslu, Latin America's most exclusive department store...