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Homenaje Latino was co-sponsored by the Cuban American Undergraduate Student Association, Fuerza Latina, Harvard Brazilian Organization, Harvard Organization for Latin American Students, Harvard Undergraduate Colombian Association, La Organización de Estudiantes Puertorriqueños en Harvard, Latinas Unidas, and RAZA...
...same period that Harvard unloaded its 67,200 shares of PetroChina on the New York Stock Exchange, it also sold all 67,200 American shares it owned of Banco Bradesco, a Brazilian banking and insurance firm. And Harvard also sharply reduced its holdings of Huaneng Power International, a Chinese electric company...
...administration of Brazilian President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva would prefer his fellow citizens to describe him as a vertically challenged, well-nourished supporter of liberal causes--and not as a short, fat communist. In an 87-page document drawn up by the Special Ministry for Human Rights and distributed to members of Congress, police chiefs, newspaper editors and other opinion leaders, the Lula administration lists 96 terms it wants to hear less of. Many are obvious: Don't call the physically handicapped cripples or the mentally handicapped mongoloids, and when describing Afro-Brazilians, steer clear of the Portuguese...
...Pentagon, under pressure to buy more efficiently, has opened bidding beyond U.S. borders--and foreigners are piling in. The Colt handgun, first used by the U.S. military in the Mexican-American War of 1846, has been replaced as standard-issue infantry gear by an Italian-designed Beretta. A Brazilian-made Embraer surveillance plane will soon patrol battlefields for the Army rather than a Gulfstream jet produced in Savannah, Ga. Britain's BAE Systems contributes avionics to the F-16, F-18 and F-117 bombers. Rolls-Royce, the British aircraft-engine maker, does more business with the Pentagon than...
Other hackers, though, had more dramatic motivations. While I was talking with HCS’s attackers, another Brazilian in the same chat room boasted of defacing www.georgewalkerbush.com; he’d put up a notice in Portuguese and English lambasting Americans for polluting the air, starting wars, and “nailing the Capitalism, [for] to be richer.” He called Americans murderers and hypocrites, and asked whether the country will attack Brazil when water (instead of oil, presumably) becomes the scarce resource...