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...Avatar a Native American story? -Robert Thijsen, Oranjestad, Aruba Not exclusively. I think Americans locate the story there most quickly. But Avatar's now the No. 1 movie in Brazil, and Brazil has a lot of issues with the displacement of indigenous populations and deforestation. There's a tribe in India that is getting pushed off its sacred mountain for a bauxite mine. The film is hugely popular in China, and people there are getting displaced by the government to build dams. So people are relating to it from all these different perspectives. (See pictures of James Cameron's best...
...That’s tough, but I started a list just for references. I don’t know if this is actually it. These are actually things I just wanted to remember to make copies of for the students. I could say “Brazil,” “Blow Up,” “The Conversation,” “Kind Hearts and Coronaries...
...Reuben and his brother left Russia instead of serving in the army. This, it seems, is where I get my bravery from. But later, when Reuben's dad was looking to get the rest of the family out of Russia, he sent family members to scout out New York, Brazil and Argentina and wound up ditching my great-grandfather and taking his eight other kids to Argentina, where they made a lot more money than their American siblings. All my cousins there are rich artists. Which means, according to everything I know about family histories, my son will become...
...Haiti, who in the 1990s championed "workfare" as a key to welfare reform. More hands-on participation in the recovery, Clinton argued recently, will give Haitians "the opportunity to, in effect, re-imagine the country." (The U.N. is also trying cash-for-work projects in developing countries like Brazil, India and South Africa...
Wrong. It's the other way around: Chile is more developed because it's doing things right. The same goes for Brazil, Uruguay, Costa Rica and a handful of other Latin American and Caribbean nations that have decided in the 21st century to stop running their societies like medieval fiefdoms. They've conceded that niceties like rule of law, accountability, education, entrepreneurial opportunity and administrative efficiency actually have merit. And they've stopped making worn-out excuses, like the threats of communism or U.S. imperialism, for not modernizing their political and economic systems. (See TIME's complete coverage...