Word: brazilians
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...shares a lifeboat with a tiger. The book was released in the U.S. in June and ranks No. 23 on this week's New York Times best-seller list. In the Author's Note, Martel acknowledges that the "spark" for his novel was ignited by reading a review of Brazilian author Moacyr Scliar's 1981 novel, Max and the Cats, in which a shipwrecked boy is trapped in a boat with a panther. Scliar, left, thinks his idea is worthy of being considered more than a spark: he believes it constitutes intellectual property. His publishing house contemplated a lawsuit...
...million movies at cut-rate prices (Sexy Beast on DVD, for example, was $2 less than at Amazon). You'll also find the Criterion Collection of films by Fellini, Hitchcock and others. For music, visit DUSTYGROOVE.COM, a site fanatically devoted to soul, funk and jazz with a big Brazilian selection too. Got gamers on your list? EBGAMES.COM neatly organizes its vast inventory by platform (PC, X box, Game Boy, GameCube, PlayStation2) and has hundreds of pre-owned games for older systems like Sega Genesis. For the traditionalist, AREYOUGAME.COM sells all the low-tech classics, including 43 versions of Monopoly...
Worth raising a glass to, right? But all last week's election in Brazil got from Wall Street was a Bronx cheer. The Brazilian currency, the real, continued a slide that, apart from a brief rally after an International Monetary Fund (IMF) rescue package last August, has gone on all year. In the markets, interest rates on Brazilian bonds (a proxy for the extent to which Wall Street regards investment in Brazil as a risk) are running more than 20 percentage points above comparable U.S. securities...
...happens, the man who coined the term Washington Consensus, John Williamson of the Institute for International Economics in Washington, is a longtime expert on the Brazilian economy. When I spoke with him last week, Williamson sounded a lot more relaxed about the prospect of a Lula government than Wall Street seems to be. After years of failure, says Williamson, the Workers' Party is now electable precisely because its policies have "converged on the middle ground." Whatever its program may have been in the past, the party now seems ready to accept the strictures of the IMF and U.S. Treasury, including...
...Mexican presidency of Vicente Fox, a right-winger, was so important in 2000, and that's why it will be worth cheering if Brazil chooses a man of the left later this month. "Brazil has changed," Lula told Time. "I am the result of the political evolution of Brazilian society...