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DIED. ROBERT J. DONOVAN, 90, author of PT-109: John F. Kennedy in World War II; after a stroke; in St. Petersburg, Fla. A former reporter for the New York Herald Tribune and the Los Angeles Times, he wrote a book on the Eisenhower Administration before telling the best-selling story of Kennedy's war years...
...Lula da Silva's ambitious antipoverty program. The team's gesture reflects, for the moment anyway, a rare sense of unified national purpose in Brazil. Last week's 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...
...Chief of Staff and former PT president Dirceu - who as a radical student leader was exiled to Cuba from 1969 to 1974 by Brazil's military rulers before slipping back into the country with a surgically altered face - has made it clear, with a somewhat high hand, that party discipline now means not criticizing Lula directly. Because it took Lula and the PT 22 years and four elections to win the presidency...
...says one Lula friend, "he's 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...
After delivering The Glow, Pt. 2, an off-kilter pop album that topped many “Best of 2001” lists, critical darlings The Microphones have promptly returned with their follow-up. A considerably darker affair, Mount Eerie is a challenging five-song concept album of meditations on death. Central Microphone Phil Elvrum sculpts an appropriately chaotic mélange with his frail, wavering voice, delicate guitar acoustics and haunting background vocals provided by labelmates Mirah and Calvin Johnson. Most prominent, however, are the constantly booming percussion and out-of-sync drum loops, which evoke (respectively) Mount Eerie...