nytimes.com - 10/26/2009
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RIO DE JANEIRO Carnaval came four months early to Brazil this year. Tens of thousands of Rio’s samba-loving residents poured out onto Copacabana Beach where they danced into the evening in flip-flops and green-and-yellow bikinis to celebrate their city’s selection as the site of the 2016 ...
spiegel.de - 10/26/2009
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'Obama Is Average' In a SPIEGEL interview, Charles
Krauthammer, the leading voice of America's conservative intellectuals, discusses...
Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize, the president's failures and the state of the United Nations and the international ...
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Interview with Charles Krauthammer: 'Obama Is Average'
angrybear.blogspot.com - 10/25/2009
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by Rebecca Policymakers across Latin America are announcing
measures to stem currency appreciation against the $US. Since...
March 2009, the $US depreciated 25% against the Colombian peso, 28% against the Brazilian real, 14% against the Mexican peso, 12% against the Peruvian nuevo sol, and 11% ...
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Big week for currency intervention measures
faustasblog.com - 10/22/2009
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Alek Boyd interviews Brazilian journalist Olavo de Carvalho:
Olavo de Carvalho explains Lula and the Sao Paulo...
Forum —Could you expand a bit on the sort of organization the FSP is, and the democratic credentials of some of its members? The São Paulo Forum was created by Lula and ...
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Lula and the Foro de Sao Paulo
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... nation was selected for the honor. Until the Olympic vote took place, Chicago was considered a strong contender, especially since former Chicago resident Barack Obama personally appeared in Copenhagen to lobby the IOC. Nonetheless, in a development that shocked the world, Chicago not only lost out, but was the city eliminated in the very first round of voting. "Brazil went from a second-class country to a first-class country, and today we began to receive the respect we deserve," said Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva at a victory celebration in Copenhagen after ...
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... nation was selected for the honor. Until the Olympic vote took place, Chicago was considered a strong contender, especially since former Chicago resident Barack Obama personally appeared in Copenhagen to lobby the IOC. Nonetheless, in a development that shocked the world, Chicago not only lost out, but was the city eliminated in the very first round of voting. “Brazil went from a second-class country to a first-class country, and today we began to receive the respect we deserve,” said Brazilian President Luiz In cio Lula da Silva at a victory celebration in Copenhagen after ...
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