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...after the Cold War, Brazil finally started tapping its vast potential, first under President Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1994-2002) and since then under Lula, a former São Paulo metal workers union leader. As he told TIME in an interview last year, Lula, who is also head of Brazil's leftist Workers Party, channeled his skills and philosophies as a labor negotiator into a hybrid development policy that's about "doing things right" instead of right-wing or left-wing. By eschewing the ideological polarization that has paralyzed Latin America for centuries, he's helped forge...
...March when news broke that a 9-year-old Brazilian girl underwent an abortion after she'd been raped and impregnated with twins by her stepfather. Catholics from São Paulo to Paris were outraged by the swift public declaration of the local Archbishop, José Cardoso Sobrinho, that the girl's family as well as the doctors who performed the abortion were automatically excommunicated. Monsignor Rino Fisichella, a solidly traditionalist Rome prelate considered to be close to Benedict, tried to soften the church's approach to the case by writing in the Vatican's official newspaper L'Osservatore...
...addition to the French language lessons and other instruction he was given, Hassanzade was initiated into French boxing by a local social worker and savate coach, Bruno Cardoso. As well as taking the young Afghan under his wing - keeping tabs on his education and helping him with his request to obtain legal residency - Cardoso also shaped Hassanzade's raw athletic talent into the skilled boxing abilities that fueled his rapid rise...
...Hard work helped, too. Hassanzade began a training regime that he still follows today: two-hour sessions six nights a week with Cardoso, supplemented by nearly ten additional hours per week of running and jumping rope on his own. The neophyte to savate - which permits blows with the feet as well as the hands - became one of its fastest-rising competitors. Less than two years after he discovered the sport, Hassanzade launched his run for the national junior crown last November, bagging his first of seven straight victories in just two rounds. (See pictures of future sporting stars...
...Indeed, Tusa says, he, Cardoso, and countless residents of Tourcoing embraced Hassanzade as one of their own in part because they were horrified at how many of his fellow Afghans have been left stranded as illegals in nearby Calais since a refugee center there was closed on Sarkozy's orders in 2002. Tusa also says that the decades of economic hardship Tourcoing and other northern cities have suffered since the region's textile and coal mining industries collapsed have made residents more compassionate towards Hassanzade and those like...