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...Better Life Whatever the explanation, the philosophy has done the President well. Two years into his second and final term, Lula has an 80% approval rating. This suggests that despite the recession, most Brazilians still feel they're winning. "It was very difficult to change social class in Brazil 10 years ago, or even four years ago," says Luis Minori of the market-research firm Ipsos. "Now people have access to microcredit and computers and other means of social mobility." In that sense Brazil has outperformed even China and India, Neri claims, because "poverty is falling [in those places...
Harvard baseball coach Joe Walsh will have some difficult roster decisions to make this spring, especially when it comes to who’s providing pop in the middle of the order.With strong competition at first base, this power position may create one of the most challenging choices, but junior Andrew Prince is ready to take on the responsibility.The left-handed Bay Area native—a life-long Giants fan—evokes San Francisco’s most famous slugger as a hulking presence with a little swagger. Still, the junior corner infielder has not made the impact...
...hard,” captain Harry Douglas says. “We basically learned our lessons from last year, and now we try to move on.” Last season, Harvard suffered from a heavy barrage of injuries early in the season, and playing one of the most difficult non-conference schedules in the country only added to its early woes. Harvard also failed to answer questions regarding the starting lineup, and the Crimson offense posted mediocre numbers as a result. This year, the state of the lineup is more clear-cut. With the benefit of health and consistency...
...human rights violations. China, for instance, denies access to web pages describing the Tiananmen Square Massacre of 1989 and Falun Gong, an outlawed religious group. According to Law School Professor Jonathan L. Zittrain, who conceived of the site, past efforts to monitor web restrictions have been centralized, making it difficult to identify and track the sites that have been blocked in real time. By having Internet users report problems as they occur, Herdict overcomes that issue, he said. Inaccessibility can also come from more innocuous sources than government censorship, said Jillian C. York, a Herdict project coordinator affiliated with...
...self-deception. While at first his clothing is triumphantly colorful, it progressively darkens to red-black before becoming solid black.LHO has taken steps to make the play easier to understand for those who have never experienced opera before, especially for people who enjoy Shakespeare but find Italian opera difficult to understand or unapproachable. LHO will host its Symposium on Verdi’s ‘Otello’ Saturday at 12 p.m. in the Lowell House Library. Among those individuals explaining the opera to attendants are Robert Honeysucker, an internationally recognized baritone and voice pedagogue, Helen Greenwald, professor...