Word: brazilians
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Everyone looks to the well-equipped 9,006-member United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti, led by Brazilian troops, as the guarantor of security. But the U.N. force, which was deployed in June 2004, is assigned to defend Haiti's constitution, not to take up arms against criminals. "When they leave, I will leave too," says Jean-Buteau Sévère, 34, who returned to his dicey Port-au-Prince neighborhood of Bel Air only after the Brazilians set up an outpost there. The gangs and private armies are likely to collude in controlling the streets--and thus the votes...
...DOWN, KICK BUTT Part martial arts, part break dancing, the Brazilian art of capoeira is coming soon to a dojo near you. Yes, even warriors boogie...
...Ralph Fiennes) learns that his crusading bride (Rachel Weisz) has been killed on a trip into the bush, and goes searching for keys to her murder. Meirelles expands the scope of the John Le Carr? source novel out of the European compound and into Kenyan villages and plains. This Brazilian director, who also found a place on the all-TIME 100 movies (City of God), likes to probe and prod a subject from a dozen oblique angles. The result is a First World story seen through the acute eyes of a Third World auteur--a film of nuance and power...
...limited success with women. But armed with a plan mapped out with Endeavor's help, Leila Velez, 31, is gaining access to loans that will help her grow her $4 million Rio de Janeiro hair-products company. Velez says Endeavor is redefining entrepreneurship for a new generation. A leading Brazilian dictionary will make that official by adding the Portuguese word for entrepreneurship, empreendedorismo, to its next edition--thanks to Endeavor's work...
...PAULO Brazilian celebrities like photographer J.R. Duran and actor Reynaldo Gianecchini sport Tiffany & Co.'s simple Mark...