Word: brazilians
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While television news channels are just starting to name the dead, the Internet already has asserted its role in chronicling the tragedy. Shortly after news of the crash made it onto television, users of Orkut, the dominant Brazilian social-networking website, had already created a “community.” By 1 a.m. it had more than 2,300 members. Just as Facebook.com and Myspace users memorialized the victims of the Virginia Tech shootings of April 16, Brazilians are already using similar mediums to ascertain the living and memorialize the dead...
...have Sunni, I have Shi'ite, and I have no problems with that. They never talk about politics.' JORVAN VIEIRA, the Brazilian coach of Iraq's national soccer team, which recorded a shock victory over Australia on July 14, setting off widespread celebration in Baghdad...
...move, marveling repeatedly at how spry he remains at age 84. When Kissinger lands elsewhere, he has to worry he'll be summoned to testify about knowledge of war crimes - several years back he cut short a trip to France rather than answer a court summons; he had the Brazilian government revoke an invitation because it couldn't guarantee his immunity; and saw a suit filed against him at home, in a Washington, D.C. federal court). During the event at Nanjing University, Jixinge worked the enthusiastic crowd, grasping outstretched hands as if he were Bono; on American campuses, students have...
...acts would play to acres of empty seats, the top shows in London and New Jersey were all but sold out, and more than 400,000 people arrived for a free concert on Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana Beach headlined by Lenny Kravitz and Macy Gray - even though a Brazilian judge had only authorized the concert days before. Even the smaller shows seemed well-attended, if a bit schizophrenic: the Tokyo concert segued from the gentle folk of Japanese pop star Cocco, who tearfully sang about manatees threatened by a military base on her home island of Okinawa...
...enacted from the same balconies were he once appeared before adoring crowds, and of course the obligatory commemorative stamps and coins. But Garibaldi's spirit has also returned to foreign shores, with a concert in Staten Island, New York, and celebrations in the Uruguayan capital of Montevideo and the Brazilian town of, well, Garibaldi. But in case anyone thought this was just dusty nostalgia, it turns out that the very face of 21st century youth is a fan of the Italian. "Garibaldi is my favorite hero," said Daniel Radcliffe, star of the Harry Potter movies, in a recent Italian magazine...