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Last season, the team excelled in non-conference away games, taking wins in five of eight tries. This weekend, however, the Crimson will face some of this season’s toughest opponents without the help of senior forward Brad Unger. A foot injury will keep the captain on the bench for the season’s opening weekend...
Over the past few years, Unger has attacked Lula’s government for its recurring corruption scandals. He has gone so far as to describe the administration as “the most corrupt in Brazilian history,” calling for the president’s impeachment in a 2005 editorial in Folha de S. Paulo, a Portuguese-language daily often regarded as Brazil’s newspaper-of-record...
After taking the position with Lula’s government, Unger retracted these criticisms, writing again in Folha de S. Paulo, “I was wrong. The facts demonstrated that the president had no direct or indirect involvement in those episodes...
...Unger also removed the first editorial from his Harvard Web site, another Brazilian newspaper, O Estado de S. Paulo, recently reported...
...Lula and Unger were also recently at odds over a legal claim Unger made in the U.S. in which he sought “close to $2 million against some pension funds controlled by Brazilian state-owned companies,” according to Reisen de Pinho. The suit prompted speculation in the Brazilian media that Unger might not assume his post, but he was inaugurated last week despite what seems to be a rocky relationship with Lula...