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...prizes for guessing why the markets are jumpy. The winner of the first round, with 46.4% of the vote, was Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva--universally known as Lula--the candidate of the Workers' Party, which has in the past flirted with repudiating Brazil's massive external debt. Lula, 56, a former labor-union leader running for the presidency for a fourth time, is likely to defeat Jose Serra, the candidate of the governing coalition, in the runoff on Oct.27. Following the economic catastrophes in Argentina and Uruguay, American bankers fear that the commitment of Latin America to the Washington...
...absent for frustratingly long periods. The album opens with Free, a nice enough tune about overcoming your demons that Hill characteristically undersings. The first sign of trouble is the title track, a big, diva-ish song that she strains to pull off. It works because the hook is a winner--"Could you cry a little/Lie just a little"--but Hill seems very ill at ease when she's required to blow away the swirling chorus at the heart of the song...
DIED. MARY MAXINE REED, believed to be 93, winner of the landmark 1971 Supreme Court sex-discrimination case that struck down an Idaho state law that automatically favored her husband as the administrator of their dead son's estate; in Boise. The unanimous decision was the court's first to extend equal protection to women...
With three of their next four games against nationally ranked teams, the Crimson’s win against California was a big step for a team that has struggled to play a truly complete game against top tier opponents. With a showdown against Princeton—winner of eight straight Ivy League titles—on the horizon, a performance like last night’s against Cal is a solid step to build upon...
Richard E. Neustadt, Presidential scholar and Harvard professor emeritus of government, was this week named the inaugural winner of the National Portrait Gallery’s Paul Peck Presidential Award for his influential studies on the American presidency...