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That too would mark a change. Brazilian officials have long wanted to make a mark outside their neighborhood, but until recently, the world rarely noticed what went on there - unless it involved beaches, soccer or Carnaval. "Brazil always suffered externally because of its internal poverty," says Lula's foreign-policy adviser, Marco Aurelio Garcia. The nation's founding monarchy, which lasted until 1889, insulated the country from the region's 19th century upheavals but also spawned a quasi-feudal class system that led to the inequalities that persist today. In 2000, fewer than 3% of Brazilians still owned more than...
...cobblestone streets. Like the locals, you can retreat into the cool, moist refuges of the ancient stone homes, most with walls so thick that air-conditioning becomes redundant. One of my favorite places to chill: Getsemani, the tiny European-style section of the Old Town - once the poor neighborhood just across the moat but now the cool Greenwich Village-style area of the city. Getting around the Old Town is a cinch; cabs cost about 5,000 pesos ($2.50) anywhere within the walls...
...There's no shortage of rooms to rent in the Old Town. Budget hotels and hostels are mostly clustered in Getsemani. Midrange and upscale accommodations can be found everywhere, many in El Centro or San Diego; the latter was once a middle-class neighborhood but is now peppered with million-dollar homes like the one 17 of us rented: a 200-year-old, eight-bedroom, blue row house (Casa Santissimo, San Diego), which goes for $2,500 per week...
...officer who was called there made some observations and decided it would best be investigated [by BRIC].” The building is part of the Longwood Medical Center, a group of medical and academic institutions—including Harvard Medical School—located in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston. Representatives of G. Greene construction Co. could not be reached for comment. Members of the Medical School’s security office declined to comment on the vandalism. The building also houses Partners in Health, a Harvard-affiliated non-profit organization, but both the Department of Global Health...
...really necessary for the American troops to remain now," said Yousef Aboud Ahmed, a Sunni volunteer fighter with a militia supported by U.S. forces in the Baghdad neighborhood of Adhamiya. "If we had a nonsectarian government in power, then yes, it would be a good idea for the American forces to go. They should go one day. But not in this situation...