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...Europe and globally, 2005 is poised to go down in the record books as the third best year for M&A activity in history. Morgan Stanley reckons the total volume of European transactions will hit $1 trillion for the year, or about 44% of the world total, and Paulo Pereira, the investment bank's European head of M&A, sees no sign of a slowdown anytime soon. "The first half of 2006 has to be the best seller's market for a long time," he says. While companies spent the first half of this decade reducing debt and cleaning...
...became a challenge for all of us. We all want the prison to win." PRISCILA MARIA PEREIRA FERREIRA, an inmate at a jail near S?o Paulo, Brazil, who competed in a government-sanctioned Miss Penitenciaria beauty pageant...
...Metropolitan Police Authority's complaints committee. "At the very least, people have a right to know exactly what it is." Menezes' family lashed out at police. "For three weeks, we have had to listen to lie after lie about Jean and how he was killed," Menezes' cousin Alessandro Pereira said at a press conference in London, during which he also demanded that Metropolitan Police Commissioner Ian Blair resign. "We never believed the English police," Menezes' 17-year-old cousin Leide told Time by phone from the small Brazilian town of Gonzaga. "We always knew he never ran. The British police...
...Sikhism?while Christianity and Islam arrived with empires that ruled the country for centuries. All left their monumental marks, from temples to palaces. The Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage, a private NGO based in New Delhi, counts 70,000 historic monuments across the country, and R.P. Pereira in the New Delhi office of UNESCO?whose World Heritage Committee meets this week in Durban, South Africa, to review global conservation efforts?calls India "the world's biggest heritage site." But even conservationists like Thakur admit that it's impossible, even immoral, for a developing nation with a quarter...
DIED. William Pereira, 76, master architect and planner who designed the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, San Francisco's Transamerica Corp. pyramid and the city of Irvine in Orange County, Calif.; of heart disease; in Los Angeles. Pereira, who tried to encourage style and balance in sprawling Southern California, once said, "We have come to accept with enthusiasm the unprofessional, unappreciative, unskillful butchery of the land that goes under the name of planning...