Word: brazilians
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...from Glasgow to London of £2.6 million ($7 million) in what became known as the Great Train Robbery of 1963 and who, though caught, soon escaped jail; reported in London. Slipper tracked Biggs to Rio de Janeiro in 1974 (greeting him with "Long time no see, Ronnie!"), but Brazilian officials refused to deport Biggs, who remained a fugitive until 2001, when he turned himself...
...Houston in 1986, when it entered the U.S. market, but after securing contracts with the likes of Wal-Mart and Costco, the company wanted a domestic manufacturing presence. Tramontina settled on Manitowoc because the city's former Mirro cookware plant, shut down in April 2003, had everything the Brazilian company needed. "The factory was in great shape, and we have access to a highly skilled work force with a tradition of making cookware," Galafassi says. "There's just a lot of synergy." --By Maggie Sieger
...image of the unarmed British bobby took a hit last week after new details emerged about the death of Jean Charles de Menezes, a Brazilian killed by police when he was mistaken for a suspected suicide bomber the day after the failed July 21 terror attacks. In line with a shoot-to-kill policy put in place after Sept. 11, Menezes was shot eight times after boarding a London Underground train. Eyewitnesses said Menezes wore a heavy jacket, and that he vaulted over the ticket barrier. These observations seemed to tally with the limited information provided by police, who said...
Amid suspicions of a government cover-up, bloggers seized on documents leaked last week from an investigation into how London police came to shoot an innocent Brazilian seven times in the head a day after the attempted bombings on July 21. Contrary to initial accounts, Jean Charles de Menezes did not appear to have worn a bulky jacket or vaulted a turnstile. "We figured the police lied from Day One," crowed WIS[S]E WORDS. But a former British army officer pointed out on the CABARFEIDH pages that the police had said "very little regarding the entire horrific episode." That...
...pretty busy, playing intellectual types like Carl Jung and Ibsen's Brand onstage. He does not encourage the whole star thing. And, at 42, he's back in style as film's most winning lost soul. The Constant Gardener, an exhilarating take on John Le Carré's novel, by Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles (City of God) and screenwriter Jeffrey Caine, is one of five Fiennes films to be released in 2005 (see box). He's a decadent art historian in Chromophobia (still awaiting a U.S. distributor), an upper-class satire that involved three of the six Fiennes siblings: sister Martha...