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...headlines also included all 27 of the country's state governors pledging to help Lula and his Workers' Party (PT) achieve crucial tax and pension reforms that will make it easier to fund his social projects - and even Brazil's dysfunctional Congress looks poised to cooperate. "I have to prove I'm capable of doing what previous Brazilian Presidents couldn't," said Lula, who took office Jan. 1. Lula's challenge is to make Brazilian government - which oversees Latin America's largest economy and the world's tenth-largest - work. If he can make that happen, he'll achieve something...
...more cautious about not flaming out and screwing up" like so many Latin lefties before him. In a closed-door meeting last month, Lula warned regional PT leaders, "We can't fail in this economic situation." Lula realizes that an erstwhile socialist has to work that much harder to prove he's a market-friendly President. Revenue gaps recently forced Palocci to slash $4 billion from the $75 billion budget (Brazil's most austere in a decade), while Meirelles raised interest rates 4.5 points to 26.5% in hopes of keeping 2003 inflation to single digits. Lula won praise across...
...Harvard men’s hockey team enters the final weekend of its regular season playing against two teams with both something to prove and something to play...
...good in the world—NATO being the most prominent example—and America would obviously be better served if more U.N. leadership roles were held by liberal democracies, instead of dictatorships and anti-American tyrannies. Reforming the U.N. is thus a worthwhile goal. However, it may prove unnecessary, for the U.N. is in danger of consigning itself to the dustbin of insignificance. Should the Security Council decide not to enforce its own resolutions for disarming the regime in Baghdad, it will be forfeiting all its remaining credibility...
...nonetheless. Players want to win. They want more moments like women’s basketball’s upset of Stanford in the first round in ’98. They want baseball to make the College World Series one day and football to be able to prove itself beyond Harvard-Yale if its season has warranted it. They want basketball to make the NCAAs and win longer than anyone expected them to, just as Princeton did in 1998, and when they do, they don’t want to treat it as a marathon runner’s pleasant...