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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...
This accident, the worst in Brazilian aeronautical history, comes at a particularly—and perhaps tellingly—inopportune time for Brazilian aviation. Last year, another major Brazilian airline faced tragedy, and revealed problems. After a Gol Airlines Boeing 737 collided with a private plane and plunged fatally into the Mato Grosso rainforest last September, investigators discovered that air traffic controllers were overworked and the system was in distress. Over the past month, epidemic delays, cancellations, and closings drew widespread media scrutiny and public attention...
...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...
...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...