Word: soundness
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...country of the moment. According to a recent study by the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD), Brazil may be the only one of 34 major economies that avoids recession in 2009. While the U.S. debates whether to nationalize its crippled banks, Brazil's remain comparatively sound. Oil companies worldwide are slashing investment, but Brazil's state-run Petrobras is going ahead with a four-year, $174 billion expansion plan. "Brazil," Lula boasted to TIME, "is riding the current crisis better than many developed countries...
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Ballet superstar and Kennedy School grad Damian Woetzel led the audience in the opening few movements of a Balanchine classic. There was, as Wotezel described it, the "shield your eyes against the sun" gesture, the "I have a headache gesture," and then the sound of a churchfull of winter boots sweaking against the floor: heels together, toes apart--ballet's first position...
...Used to terminate bad call-ins with "The Caller Abortion" - the sound of a vacuum cleaner and a woman's scream...
...This is not as far-fetched as it might first sound. A friend in Karachi - educated, a staunch feminist and usually disparaging of all things religious - invokes a popular ditty every time the game is brought up: "I don't like cricket; I love it," she chants (after the 1978 10cc number "Dreadlock Holiday"). When I interviewed one of the founding members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, the militant group suspected of orchestrating November's terrorist attacks on Mumbai, the ice was broken with a discussion of a cricket match. And when I visited a conservative seminary campus in Muridke, near...