Word: brazilians
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When producers of CBS's hit drama CSI: Miami considered locales for the first episode of the new season, Rio de Janeiro was a natural. The Brazilian megalopolis--a city associated with drugs and danger--was a place where Lieutenant Horatio Caine (David Caruso) could plausibly go to solve his wife's murder, the crime that concluded last season. But it was also a good business move to film the opener in South America, where millions of loyal viewers watch each week. "We have a responsibility to embrace these markets where we get so much support," says Caruso, who spent...
...single dastardly phrase: “French window.” The professor is convinced that there is no such thing—in Argentina—and that simply to put down the literal translation of the phrase would make about as much sense as “Brazilian window” or “Czechoslovakian window” would in English. My Argentine classmates just want to know if we started saying “freedom window” after our spat with the French over the war in Iraq...
...only after he concentrated his attacks on widespread corruption inside the PT that his numbers rose. "I think Alckmin's strategy will be to continue on about the ethical questions and the scandals of the PT that are Lula's weak point," said Geraldo Monteiro, president of the Brazilian Institute of Social Research. "He can win it, he can most certainly win it. Lula without doubt underestimated him and he is paying the price for his haughtiness...
...dancing on rooftops and waving red flags in the streets. They passionately believed the unlettered former shoeshine boy would make Brazil a safer, fairer and happier place, and he promised them one thing. Minutes after donning the presidential sash, he vowed: "If at the end of my mandate every Brazilian has the opportunity to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner, I will have accomplished my life's mission...
...were given to municipalities and were therefore subject to the vagaries of local powerbrokers. Lula gave the poor a cash card so they themselves could go to the bank and take out their monthly allowance. "The poor didn't always get the money," said Carlos Manhanelli, president of the Brazilian Association of Political Consultants. "Lula changed it. Today, the money that didn't always get there arrives and it is seen as coming from Lula...