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Home Anyway, that pretty much it. That's how my time at Rock in Rio went. I'm still trying to find some sense in everything, find some trends, some meanings, some currents. Brazil gives and takes from the world. The rest of the world gives and takes from Brazil...
Criticisms of NATO's use of depleted-uranium weapons in Kosovo could be easily dismissed by the Pentagon when they came from environmentalists, peace activists and Belgrade. But when the complaints come from their European NATO partners, the generals in Washington may find the issue more troubling. Italy called Wednesday...
Suddenly, Wilson's narrative jumps away from this unhappy family and back to 1941 Berlin, where an industrialist named Klaus Felsen is being persuaded, none too gently, to abandon his railroad-coupling factory and take on an important assignment for the Nazis. The Third Reich needs vast amounts of wolfram...
From this point on, Wilson's novel careers along on two tracks--the present investigation in Lisbon and past Nazi activities in Portugal--that slowly but inexorably converge. Inspector Coelho, of course, knows nothing about Klaus Felsen or his murky role on behalf of the Nazis, so the reader is...
"The old people idealize Portugal," Cerqueira says. "They always say that they'd go back, if it weren't for their children who live here. I think that if they had to go back, and hang around there, then they'd get to miss this place instead. After you've...