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...Janeiro and in Sao Paulo, ecstatic citizens showered paper from office windows, leaned on their car horns and set off firecrackers in the streets. In towns and villages across the vast reaches of the country, Brazilians danced and swayed to the tunes of countless samba bands. The occasion was the election last week of Tancredo Neves as the nation's first civilian President after 21 years of military rule. Neves, 74, a lawyer and the former governor of Minas Gerais state, quickly promised reform: "I come to make urgent and courageous political, social and economic changes indispensable to the well...
...nation, it is to some extent because they felt proud of themselves for accepting the idea that a woman and a black can run for the highest offices in the land. Jackson's race for the Democratic nomination, the first serious campaign by a black American, brought countless new voters into the political process, even if their hopes did end in at least partial disillusion. His address to the Democratic Convention last summer, an astonishing display of his rhetorical resources, was one of the memorable speeches of the late 20th century...
Washington's official celebration, echoed in festivals of light and countless other wassailings across the nation, was called the Christmas Pageant of Peace. Held on the Ellipse, a 52-acre circular park between the White House and the Washington Monument, it included not only the elaborately decorated national Christmas tree but also 56 smaller ones representing the states, U.S. territories and the District of Columbia. In addition, the National Zoo installed nine live reindeer near by, and each day a traditional yule log is set ablaze. That feature proved less than popular during last Thursday's balmy weather...
...term meaning sanctuary. A thousand years later, the word is dark with irony. Founded to fight foreign oppressors, the organization has come to include the island's most terrible despots. Their fingers can be found in every business and social institution from Palermo to Catania, their hands behind countless murders. Puzo offers swatches of sad history and exotic sociology. Mussolini nearly wiped out the Mafia, but the U.S. Army ensured its comeback when it unlocked Fascist prisons. Kidnaping is a cottage industry, monks fake relics, and omertà, the code of silence, is so pervasive that strangers often cannot...
Ross company is just one of countless businesses in a wide range of industries all over the United States who call themselves Harvard From New York to Los Angeles, Boston to Houston, phone books bulge with cleaners, car washes, retail stores, even restaurants which have--one way or another ended up with the same name as one of the most famous universities in the world...