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...spots: Dos Rios, 316 Court Avenue, (515) 282-2995 Lucca, 420 East Locust Street, (515) 243-1115 Gateway Market and Cafe, 2002 Woodland Avenue...
...boom] benefits those who finance and carry out the projects," he admits. "But it will benefit the people in the long term." That's a minority view. Another Luanda-based observer says a change of course would require a change of government, but Angola's President José Eduardo dos Santos has not held an election since 1992. The observer describes the state as a ship heading for the reef of authoritarianism, corruption and popular discontent--a pattern seen in other oil-rich nations like Nigeria. Africa's oil wealth is all the more important now that China is investing huge...
Cresting the hill on Avenida dos Bandeirantes that leads to SĂŁo Paulo’s Congonhas Airport, I saw the dense black smoke, blown sideways by the wind. When I ascended the driveway, I was confused. At that moment, the burning warehouse of Transportes AĂ©reos MarĂlia (TAM), Brazil’s largest airline, looked like any of a dozen building fires I had seen on the evening news. But the severed tail of a TAM Airbus 320 protruded from the warehouse, signaling that the 176 people on board were surely dead...
...left on Avenida dos Bandeirantes, we saw that a third building behind the first two was still on fire. I did not see a single body in the four hours I spent at Congonhas. I did not witness distressed relatives. But the sight of the flaming wreck and the amputated tail of TAM flight JJ3054 will haunt me—and Brazilian aviation—for years to come. Matthew S. Blumenthal ’08, a Crimson news editor, is a history and literature concentrator in Pforzheimer House. He is interning at Folha de São Paulo...
...Zakaryan ’07, his roommate of four years, says that he has always been impressed with the way Sarkar can converse about both the most superficial and the most serious of subjects. “He owns a studded belt. He sometimes likes to wear up-dos and mohawks,” Zakaryan said. “But he’s also so thoughtful about how we are living our lives with the resources that we receive as Harvard students.” “He’s also so intelligent, so thoughtful that...