Word: brazilianizing
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...gets the best daily catch directly from local fishermen. "I have always had a passion for cooking," he says, while boasting of his A-grade guest list, which includes Princess Caroline of Monaco, Luciano Pavarotti and George Michael. Not surprisingly, the background music is Pavarotti and Michael, along with Brazilian and Cuban rhythms. - Martha de la Cal Guimaraes Just Dessert Guimaraes is often called the "cradle of the nation" because it was here, in 1128, that Portugal declared its independence from the Spaniards of Castile and Galicia. Today, however, it is better known for a dessert called Toucinho...
...about Iraq's history. Had they done their homework on the country, they might have understood why they have come to be so resented there. Any occupation is traumatic. Perhaps the most poignant observation on Iraq in the past year was made by another U.N. representative in Baghdad, the Brazilian diplomat Sergio Vieira de Mello, shortly before he was killed in a bombing last August. "Who would like to see their country occupied?" Vieira de Mello said to an interviewer. "I would not like to see foreign tanks in Copacabana." Time after time, the humiliation of occupation outweighs any good...
...known as crucifixion, says Darius Rejali, an associate professor of political science at Reed College and author of Torture and Modernity. This kind of standing torture was used by the Gestapo and by Stalin, he says, although the wires and the threat of electrocution if you fell were a Brazilian police innovation. "You don't learn this sort of thing in West Virginia," says Rejali. "Somebody had to tell these soldiers what the parameters were for their behavior...
...occupation is traumatic. Perhaps the most poignant observation on Iraq in the past year was made by the Brazilian diplomat Sergio Vieira de Mello, the United Nations representative in Baghdad, shortly before he was killed in a bombing last August. "Who would like to see their country occupied?" Vieira de Mello said to an interviewer. "I would not like to see foreign tanks in Copacabana." Time after time, the humiliation of occupation outweighs any good intentions that an imperial power may have. (Imperial powers always insist their true mission is a civilizing one, as if they aimed...
...occupation is traumatic. Perhaps the most poignant observation on Iraq in the past year was made by the Brazilian diplomat Sergio Vieira de Mello, the United Nations representative in Baghdad, shortly before he was killed in a bombing last August. "Who would like to see their country occupied?" Vieira de Mello said to an interviewer. "I would not like to see foreign tanks in Copacabana." Time after time, the humiliation of occupation outweighs any good intentions that an imperial power may have. (Imperial powers always insist their true mission is a civilizing one, as if they aimed...