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...analysts doing double takes. Since President Néstor Kirchner was elected in 2003, annual growth has averaged 9%, the best in Latin America. Argentina has parlayed a cheaper but stable peso into record export earnings. "Argentina," crows Central Bank president Martín Redrado, "is enjoying its most solid macroeconomic context of the past 30 years." In Brazil, Lula's election (and 2006 re-election) did not render the region's largest economy a leftist basket case. Instead, inflation has fallen from 12.5% in 2002 to less than 4% today. Brazil's real has climbed 56% against the U.S. dollar...
...Tipâ€: Hip-hop speak for “in the context of.†“On a dinosaur tip...†= “in the context of dinosaurs...
...share my take on the origins of the law, since it’s a reminder of when Abraham, the founder of Judaism, gave up his occupation as a maker of idols and swore to worship the one Hebrew Lord. The guys in the group explained to me the context of Christian interpretation of the law. But I felt most at home when we started discussing how these passages were applicable to our daily lives. As an intense literature-nerd, this kind of analysis was very familiar. When I was reading Joyce’s “Ulysses...
...came, to say the least, as a surprise. For a man who normally is the very embodiment of decorum, Juan Carlos' retort to the Venezuelan president - "Why don't you shut up?" - seemed shockingly uncharacteristic. But a statement from the Palace on Tuesday may have offered a bit of context on the royal mood: the king's eldest child, the infanta Elena, was separating "temporarily" from her aristocratic husband, Jaime de Marichalar. Could His Majesty - coolheaded impeder of military coups, tireless inaugurator of schools and hospitals, diplomatic booster of all things Spanish - be feeling a little family stress...
...archenemy, Oswald, King of Kent (Kerian E. Robertson ’08), and by Oswald’s treacherous magician Osmond (Benjamin G. Gallant ’11). HEMS had a twofold task: Putting on a production about a 5th-century Briton while maintaining the 17th-century context in which it was originally created, by composer Henry Purcell and poet John Dryden. This balancing act was reflected in exaggeratedly graceful gestures, the use of the harpsichord and the theorbo (a string instrument more commonly used in the Baroque period), and the costumes, designed by Elisa M. Olivieri...