Word: luiz
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...most brilliant President. James Buchanan, Herbert Hoover and Richard Nixon had excellent résumés, yet each failed when the U.S. needed strong leadership. Whether or not Obama is qualified on paper, he has all the tools for the making of a successful Commander in Chief. Luiz Bravim, Hollywood, Florida...
...What was your lowest point as commissioner, and your highest point? -Luiz Dias, Fort Worth, TexasThe worst has probably been having to suspend players for life for failing drug tests. Another was being at the announcement that Magic [Johnson] was HIV positive, when we expected to lose him. [The best] has been watching the U.S. and the world embrace the athletes of the NBA, who had earlier been described as "too black" for us to succeed...
...agency warning the true figure is closer to 7,000 sq. km. (2,700 sq. miles) "It is a completely new and very worrying development," Joao Paulo Capobianco, executive-secretary at the Environment Ministry, admitted at a press conference to announce the figures on Thursday. So worrying that President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva brought together several ministers to discuss measures designed at halting the destruction...
What the military build-up does, however, is give Chavez's Venezuela added prestige in the continental battle for political supremacy. Chavez has brought together South America's radical leftists under his socialist banner; while Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva leads a more measured coalition of social democrats. The two men are friends but both countries are getting used to being at the political and economic vanguard of South America. Military strength helps with that...
...corrupt Venezuela," says Juan Mejía, a head of the student movement that led the opposition to Chávez at the referendum. Indeed, it was Chávez's electrifying emergence that paved the way for the election in this decade of other leftist heads of state, like Brazil's Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Argentina's Néstor Kirchner and Chile's Michelle Bachelet, even if Chávez affects to disdain their moderate, market-oriented socialism. Sunday's humbling results will make Chávez a less swaggering figure on the hemispheric scene, yet a little humility on his part...