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No wonder, then, that Santa Catarina's state capital, Florianópolis, is regularly voted best for quality of life in the country. The accolade attracts a steady flow of fashionable Paulistas (São Paulo is only an hour's flight away), young surfers and families coming to while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Beautiful South | 2/20/2008 | See Source »

If Smeaton's deeds made him an action hero; his words have made him a comic one. His interviews are delivered in such a distinct Scottish idiom and accent that one Australian network provided subtitles. His most oft-quoted statements include this account of his tussle with the terrorist: "Me...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Smeaton: Scottish Hero | 7/11/2007 | See Source »

Baiano is frying potatoes next to an open sewer in a district of São Paulo known as Campo Limpo (beautiful field). His van is plastered with election posters. Three girls brave the miasma of cooking oil and rotting waste to hand him leaflets for a rival. They've...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Grim Rules Of Gangland | 9/24/2006 | See Source »

Rather, Appiah’s subject is the citizen (“polites”) of the cosmos: that is, the citizen who conceives of him or herself not as belonging to the “polis,” a city to which he or she would owe loyalty...

Author: By Moira G. Weigel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Weigel Room: Being 'Cosmo' Girls—And Boys | 2/15/2006 | See Source »

University President Lawrence H. Summers told the Faculty that, “I want to state in the clearest possible terms my commitment to the polis model as a basis for our interaction going forward.” Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences William C. Kirby echoed...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Rebuilding Our Ivory Tower | 2/24/2005 | See Source »

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