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...vote, was Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva--universally known as Lula--the candidate of the Workers' Party, which has in the past flirted with repudiating Brazil's massive external debt. Lula, 56, a former labor-union leader running for the presidency for a fourth time, is likely to defeat Jose Serra, the candidate of the governing coalition, in the runoff on Oct.27. Following the economic catastrophes in Argentina and Uruguay, American bankers fear that the commitment of Latin America to the Washington Consensus, the bundle of free-market policies that has been adopted on the continent since the late 1980s...
...Pentagon is not counting on deterrence alone. Bombing chemical and biological sites would be dicey, however, since blasted facilities could spew poisons hundreds of miles downwind, potentially over U.S. troops or Iraqi civilians. So the U.S. military is weighing the wisdom of attacking deeply buried facilities with "agent defeat" weapons designed to produce a heat so intense it kills the spores in biological weapons and breaks down the poisons in chemical weapons. This would keep toxins from being released into the atmosphere. Pentagon officials say another option would be to try to shut down Iraq's biological and chemical facilities...
Historical analysis also suggests that the rise of nationalism is a response to humiliation and defeat, he said, citing the growth of strong nationalist sentiment in Nazi Germany...
...were really glad to finally defeat a ranked team,” McDavitt said...
...Last season the Giants left fielder hit a record 73 home runs; this year, he led Major Leagues in batting average. Most amazingly were the number of times pitchers declined to throw to him at all; he walked nearly 200 times, including 68 intentional walks, a complete admission of defeat where the pitcher drops even the pretense of throwing something Bonds might be able to hit. Those walk numbers are the highest in the history of the game...