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...mostly of international students—about 90 percent, according to Dudley’s assistant-captain Mauricio O. Carneiro—who come from countries where soccer is taken more seriously. Dudley players, on the other hand, say undergrads play more aggressively with them because they are strangers. Carneiro (valiantly) said he asked his reps if Dudley could spend the beginning of games meeting the undergraduate players, hoping this would lessen the violence. Props for the conflict mediation...although a few punches do make things more interesting...

Author: By Sophie M. Alexander, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Die-Hard Dedication | 12/5/2007 | See Source »

Public safety officials were quick to notify the public that the chemical is harmless and poses "no health threat or danger that we're aware of," according to andrea Carneiro, director of public affairs at the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection...

Author: By Julie H. Park, | Title: Gas Leak Causes Early Morning Evacuation | 4/26/1994 | See Source »

Some scholars see more foam than substance in Katz's notion. "Hunters and gatherers did not have the pottery to put stuff in to soak," objects Anthropology Curator Robert Carneiro of the American Museum of Natural History. Other academics point out that the theory has been suggested before and remains speculative. But Katz claims no proprietary insight. "We all know nothing is so simple as a single cause," he observes. Having a tall cool one, however, "is maybe a more important part of the process toward domestication than we had previously thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: History With Gusto | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

...only thing most Portuguese seemed to agree on was the singular loss in the death of Sá Carneiro, a diminutive (5 ft. 4 in.) man who as a political fighter always seemed taller than he really was. Friends and opponents alike recalled that the young Sá Carneiro braved catcalls in the National Assembly to speak out for freedom in the dying days of Portuguese dictatorship. Intolerant of criticism in office, however, he drifted rightward. His campaign for Soares Carneiro was based on a threat to resign as Prime Minister. Justifying such a potentially destabilizing tactic, Sá Carneiro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PORTUGAL: A Gambler's Luck Runs Out | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

DIED. Francisco Sa Carneiro, 46, Prime Minister of Portugal whose rightist Democratic Alliance had given his country its first stable government since the overthrow of Marcello Caetano in 1974; in a plane crash that also killed Minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 15, 1980 | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

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