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...Brasília finds itself in the kind of diplomatic spotlight it once shunned. Chávez never misses a chance to thumb his nose at U.S. influence in Latin America, and since he'd grown impatient with what he considered the Obama Administration's too tepid efforts to lean on the Honduras coup leaders and get his ally Zelaya returned to power, he decided it was time to bring Lula deeper into a banana-republic situation that gets messier for the hemisphere by the day. (See pictures of violence during the Honduras protests...
...sync with the wider marketplace and with the zeitgeist of contemporary rock. As grunge died, they responded by moving into the past, absorbing the traditions of classic rock. The group’s eponymous album was an attempt, in part, to recreate their grunge roots; it was dominated by lean, brief, hard rock songs, but though it attracted some moderate critical approval it soon faded away, having failed to excite even the faithful. With this background, it is almost ridiculous that in 2009—18 years after their debut, “Ten,” and with...
...We’re very proud of Desmond,” said Harvard football coach Tim Murphy. “[He] came to Harvard as a lean, raw football player with tremendous physical ability and potential. But through hard work and perseverance, he’s still improving, and he’s proved he can play at the highest level...
...select poems evoking images of his native English landscape before a packed audience last night. Speaking some lines with slow, measured syllables and others with rapid, beat-like inflections, Armitage led his audience to laugh at his unexpected images, tap their fingers to the beat of his words, and lean forward to catch his every fading syllable. “Simon’s poetry behaves characteristically in a very recognizable geography of everyday life,” English Professor W. James Simpson said in introduction. “But they also have the capacity to invest that ordinary experience...
...Professional sports have changed a lot since the dark days of the Depression. Downturn or not, it's no longer cheap to follow a team first hand. Gentrified soccer stadiums and ballparks lean more heavily on corporate dollars than the wallet of the average fan. What's more, figuring out who's a real star, when so many top athletes are marketed as one, has never been trickier. But millions of fans still crave the distraction sport can offer: witness the frenzy that followed Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt's electrifying performances at this summer's World Championship in Athletics. (Read...