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...trying to gang up on the United States," Amorim told Time. Instead, he insists, the U.S. has made "an attempt to corner Brazil." America isn't about to budge on politically vital issues like agriculture subsidies. It hopes to make Brazil back down by painting its defiant stance as reckless international populism. That may be the only way left to salvage the ftaa, a pact the U.S. has long coveted as a guarantee against Latin America (today the U.S.'s second-largest export market) reverting to statist protectionism. But Lula looks unlikely to blink and is "definitely prepared to walk...
...kidnapping threat serious enough that he needed a dozen security escorts with him on the night he won his Oscar. Crowe did not handle any of this particularly well. Instead of expressing amused bewilderment at the peculiarity of fame--a strategy Colin Farrell has perfected--he was defiant, his Maximusian scowl declaring "How dare you be intrigued by me, ungrateful rabbling dogs!" Soon he was being parodied as a great marauding sourpuss on South Park...
...favor such a move. It's legal in Switzerland, and in certain cases in Belgium and the Netherlands. - By Bruce Crumley Scandalous BELGIUM European Commission President Romano Prodi fended off calls for high-level resignations over the misuse of funds by Eurostat, the E.U.'s statistical office. But his defiant stand did little to convince doubters of the Commission's ability to account cleanly for its €94 billion annual budget. Try Again SWEDEN Police investigating the stabbing murder of Foreign Minister Anna Lindh released suspect Per Olof Svensson and cleared him of involvement in the attack. A new suspect...
...Update: Suspended from the bench for his refusal to remove a two-ton Ten Commandments monument from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court, Chief Justice Roy Moore remains defiant as he fights to have his case heard in the United States Supreme Court. Moore spoke with TIME's Paige Bowers before the monument was removed...
Despite popularity ratings as low as 21% and a host of rivals circling him, Davis is defiant. He dismisses the recall campaign against him as "partisan mischiefmaking by Republican right-wingers." In an interview with TIME last week, he said he would not resign, adding, "It's like the [Oakland] Raiders wanting to get a second game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers because they didn't like the way they played in the Super Bowl. That's not the way life works...