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...left with Harvard and Stanford neck-and-neck,” one Crimson player said...
Impressive physical specimens and versatile threats on the hardwood, Powell and Odom would constitute tremendous coups by Harvard if either were to commit. They are the caliber of player the likes of which the Ivy League rarely encounters, but as always, it remains to be seen where the prospects...
Brazil is hardly an idle player in Latin America. In fact, its diplomatic corps (usually called Itamaraty, after the name of the Foreign Ministry's Modernist building in Brasília) is widely considered one of the world's best, and it has played a key role in defusing South American crises like last year's chest-thumping row between Colombia and Venezuela. Brazilian troops run the U.N. mission in violence-torn Haiti. And Lula, one of the world's most popular heads of state, has become arguably the most effective intermediary between Washington and a resurgent, anti...
...Lula foreign policy adviser Marco Aurélio Garcia told TIME last year. "We don't believe everyone should be like us." But at the same time, Lula is on a crusade to make Brazil, with the world's fifth largest population and ninth largest economy, a serious international player. He's stumping hard for a permanent Brazilian seat on the U.N. Security Council and more input from developing nations in setting global trade and economic policy. (He is also personally cheerleading in Copenhagen for the Brazilian bid for the 2016 Olympics, a move that may have helped convince Obama...
...much as the junior liked the spotlight on Friday, it’s what he’s done when he’s not the center of attention that have made him the player he is today...