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...date of Jan. 1, 2005. Things got fierce before the meeting began. The U.S. used its carrots and sticks to successfully pressure nations like Peru and Colombia to defect from Brazil's alliance. Lula, meanwhile, accused Washington of creating a "commercial apartheid." He sent diplomats throughout Latin America to shore up support for what he and Argentine President Néstor Kirchner call the Buenos Aires Consensus, a left-leaning design for trade that emphasizes job creation and access to markets. Now Lula faces a delicate diplomatic moment. If things melt down in Miami, Brazil could be blamed for derailing...
...books have a music of their own, though occasionally compressed into passages that are a trial by vocabulary for shore-hugging readers ("and then these futtock-plates at the rim here hold the dead-eyes for the topmast shrouds"). The books are action-adventures, true, but also peerless novels of 19th century manners, detailing the mores of Regency England while instructing in the finer points of how to cannonade a French corsair or master seas that can body slam mere frigates into splinters...
...cast is headed by James Spader as defense lawyer Alan Shore, an ethically challenged former embezzler who uses his powers of sleaze to help his colleagues, his clients and his self-interest. The gamble seems to have worked. The show topped NBC's heavily touted Rob Lowe drama, The Lyon's Den, and Spader's complex, even sympathetic performance gives the show more interest than it has had in years. (A stunt casting turn by Sharon Stone helped too.) The old characters, Kelley says, "would always do the right moral thing at the end of the day. That occasioned...
INJURED. BETHANY HAMILTON, 13, among the nation's best competitive amateur surfers, after a 10-to-15-ft. shark bit off her left arm while she was lying on her surfboard; off Kauai's North Shore, Hawaii. Hamilton had obtained several sponsors and was planning...
Garland is one of three new additions that will look to shore up the vulnerable back...