Jan-Feb 2006 |
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Special Report
The
Art of Alexandre Spyer > read
We find it a privilege to be able
to bring to our readers the work of this wonderful Brazilian
artist who is getting a growing attention from the Brazilian
public and press. In a jeans-wearing world Spyer revives
and fires our desire to be glamorous and exercise our
right to beauty... and mystery. (...) By
Christina Ramos
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Editorial
New
Vistas in India-Brazil Relations >
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For decades, India-Brazil relations
have been low key though ‘friendly and cordial’.
In large measure, their bilateralism was not grounded
in any substantial institutional co-operation save the
shared rhetoric of ‘South-South Cooperation’
(...) By
Aparajita Gangopadhyay |
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Mother
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Nothing is the way it used to
be. Yet, nothing has changed. And I ask myself everyday
what happened. The answer must be very complicated as
you insist on not telling me. It must be like one of
those silly innocent questions I used to ask when I
was little. (...) By
Celina Penteado
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Language
by the numbers > read
How many words do you need to
express yourself? The answer
to this, and the questions which follow is: "depende…".
So, we won't address the myriad possible answers which
have already been worked over ad nauseam in Ph.D. theses;
but, listen to this (...) By
Frank Cherry
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Ode
to Brazil: > read
Our friend David Inkey is a follower of Don Quixote
and Sancho Panza, being like the youth Don Lorenzo,
a perfect poet. Listen to Cervantes' admonition: "The
reason is, that art does not surpass nature, but only
brings it to perfection, and thus, nature combined
with art, and art with nature, will produce a perfect
poet." .By
David Inkey
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Clipping Desk
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policing South American style >
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Police in São Paolo look to community policing
as a way of ensuring peace and security in one of
the world’s largest cities. In February Insp
Richard Haddow of the Calgary Police Service and C/Supt
Val Zanin from RCMP Headquarters spent two weeks in
Brazil consulting with military and civil police groups
about Canadian policing methods and approaches. It
was a fruitful exchange.
Source: CIDA
Getting
to know the environment > read
University of Calgary Develops Energy and Environment
Masters Degree for Latin America. “Engineers
don’t set out to collude and conspire against
the environment,” says former Secretary General
of the Latin American Energy Organization (OLADE),
Francisco Gutierrez, “degradation results out
of ignorance, ignorance about the impact that some
of our actions will have.” If ignorance is the
cause, knowledge is the basis for the cure.
Source: CIDA
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