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...idea of giving preference to home-based players is not new, but it is unworkable, and most people know it. In fact, it was tried in 1990, when coach Paulo Roberto Falcao picked only Brazil-based players for his first five games in charge. The team never won a match - and scored just one goal - prompting Falcao to quickly abandoned the idea. Today, such a strategy has even less chance of success given the rate at which Brazil's international-class players are snapped up by foreign sides. A team of home-based players would struggle against even mediocre European...
...nearby table, Al Falcao, from Toronto, holds court. He's something of a celebrity in the pin-trading scene - a king pin, if you will. "You need a bit of savvy," he explains. Falcao has come a long way since he stuck his first seven pins into a pizza box after the Calgary Winter Olympics in 1988. That's when he decided to branch out from stamps, license plates and baseball caps. His priorities are, in descending order: guest, media, national, and limited-edition corporate-sponsor pins. He claims his collection stands at 25,000. "I've given...
Such are the disappointments of this, the Olympics' biggest unofficial sport. But win, lose or draw, at least Falcao and his pinhead friends can console themselves with the prospect of a few thousand more tiny medals...
...roles for both play have been drawn from the Katherine Gibbs, Katheline Dell, Academe Moderne, and New England Conservatory of Music Schools. Filling this half of the dramatis personae are Misses Priscilla Freeman, Marilyn Matson, Ruth Bersted, Valerie Proctor, Elizabeth Collins, Janet Griswald, Ulla Hanson, Priscilla Patch, and Isadora Falcao...
...important to establish an institute through which people of the United States can become acquainted with the cultural activities of Brazilians--their music, their arts, their periodicals, literature, and history," Dr. Falcao says...