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...carefree attitude to advance planning, and I'd always joked that Sao Paulo's bandits were better organized than their Rio counterparts. When drug gangs brought Sao Paulo, a city of 19 million that is Brazil's business and industrial capital, to a standstill in May with a four-day orgy of violence that left close to 200 people dead, I felt vindicated...
...begrudge Pelosi her four-day "coronation," as right-wing wags have dubbed it? The events themselves are hardly ostentatious: there's a mass, a tea, and prayer service. The most raucous thing on the schedule is a concert by Tony Bennett. Add a tote bag and it'd be a PBS telethon. Indeed, the demographic-pleasing tenor of the events reeks of a self-conscious desire to highlight all soft-focus interest groups that come with the Pelosi package: Italian, female, Catholic, grandmother. With so many facets illuminated, perhaps Pelosi's people are hoping no one notices what's been...
...shrugged at the news and remained focused on the many pressing problems facing anyone struggling to find a normal life amid so much daily violence.? Today's news hardly seemed to raise an eyebrow among people in Baghdad getting ready for the holiday feasts of Eid al-Adha, a four-day celebration in the Islamic world...
India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who arrived in Japan for a four-day visit Wednesday, will be feted with all the traditional state visit perks, including meetings with top Japanese corporate leaders and a ceremony with Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko. But by also according Singh the unusual honor of addressing a joint session of the Japanese parliament, the Diet, Tokyo is signaling just how seriously Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is taking the summit with Singh...
...birthplace of Auld Lang Syne is also the home of Hogmanay, a spectacularly rousing four-day celebration that welcomes the New Year with fire, music, parades and then some more fire. The party starts on Dec. 29 with a 15,000-strong song-filled candlelight procession and fire festival through Edinburgh and ends with the symbolic burning of a Viking longship. Days of parades, concerts, dog races and fireworks follow...