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| Tuesday, 31-Aug-2004 00:00 |
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| Wednesday, 18-Aug-2004 00:00 |
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Mensagem Desesperada
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O dia 14 de abril de 1981 ...
Neste dia nasceu uma orelhuda porem saudavel menina, hoje conhecida como Karina. Atualmente reside na cidade de Nova York e procura desesperadamente a sua familia. Sua mae foi vista pela ultima vez na cidade do Rio de Janeiro, mas autoridades acreditam que esta possa estar agora no Nordeste do pais, mais precisamente na cidade de Jaboatao dos Guararapes, vizinha a capital pernambucana.Oficiais responsaveis pelo caso que chocou o mundo na ultima semana acreditam que se trata de um abandono tardio, um fenomeno raro no pais. A policia nao descartou a hipotese de uma estrategica mudanca de rota da genitora da imigrante. O delegado encarregado do caso nao confirmou, mas existem pistas de que a genitora abandonadora de maiores-imigrados esteja na cidade industrial de Volta Redonda, na regiao Sul do estado do Rio de Janeiro. Em uma declaracao deseperada a impresa local Karina fez um apelo:" Queria pedir a todo o Brasil que reze pela minha mae e que me ajude a encontra-la", disse aos prantos. Autoridades pretendem desvendar o misterio da abandonadora de maiores-imigrados ate o fim desta semana.
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| Monday, 5-Jul-2004 00:00 |
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" Não entendo. Isso é tão vasto que ultrapassa qualquer entender. Entender é sempre limitado. Mas não entender pode não ter fronteiras. Sinto que sou muito mais completa quando não entendo. Não entender, do modo como falo, é um dom. Não entender, mas não como um simples de espírito. O bom é ser inteligente e não entender. É uma benção estranha, como ter loucura sem ser doida. É um desinteresse manso, é uma doçura de burrice. Só que de vez em quando vem a inquietação: quero entender um pouco. Não demais: pelo menos entender que não entendo."
Clarice
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| Wednesday, 2-Jun-2004 00:00 |
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astonishing nyc sunset
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manhattan
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"It was a cruel city, but it was a lively one, a savage city, yet it had such tenderness; a bitter, harsh and violent catacomb of stone and steel and tunneled rock, slashed savagely with light, and roaring, fighting a constant ceaseless warfare of men and machinery…"
-- Of Time and the River
Thomas Wolfe
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| Friday, 28-May-2004 00:00 |
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Sculpture Center- May 2004
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Karina, Duda e Christian Manzuto (!)
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| Friday, 21-May-2004 00:00 |
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Brazil in the News -- by Karina V.
Like any other Latin American country, Brazil is not commonly mentioned in the American media. It happens even less often during a year of presidential elections and war on Iraq. Well, it so happened last May 9th on the sixth page of The New York Times.
The article, signed by Larry Rohter, the Times bureau chief in Rio de Janeiro, affirmed that Brazilian president Luis Inácio Lula da Silva’s excessive alcohol consumption was troubling his ability to govern the country. Entitled “Brazilian Leader's Tippling Becomes National Concern”, the article led to a national debate and a near diplomatic crisis between Brazil and the United States.
Irritated with the reporter, Lula, which the government described as a “social drinker”, qualified the article as “calumnious” and decided to expel the journalist from the country. The over-reaction gained international attention as the press raised questions about the freedom of expression in the country.
“If the Brazilian authorities go through with their threat to expel Rohter, it will do irreparable damage to freedom of expression in the country and send a terrible message to other governments in the region that respect Brazil’s tradition of tolerance,” said José Miguel Vivanco, executive director of Human Rights Watch’s Americas division.
London's influential Economist magazine also condemned Lula declaring that “his response mimicked the way dictatorships dispose of their critics, and turned him from victim to victimiser.”
To Marjorie Miller, international editor of Los Angeles Times, Lula’s move would only worsen whatever damage was already inflicted to Brazil's image by the article. “Shameful”, “disastrous” and “authoritarian” were some of the adjectives the Brazilian press used to describe the president’s attitude.
Last Friday the controversy finally ended when Lula decided not to revoke Rohter’s visa to stay in the country. The decision was made after the journalist sent a letter to the government saying that he "never had the intention of offending the honor of the president." Lula considered the letter to be an apology and a retraction of Rohter's article.
After all, has Rohter’s article really damaged Brazil’s image in the U.S., as Lula says? The answer for this question might be a straight “no” but only because this image simply doesn’t exist. If Americans are not informed or interested enough to know about their own country, their knowledge of other countries is worthless.
The one thing that's certain is that Lula forced the world's media to pay attention to an embarrassing story that would otherwise have faded away, like most of the journalistic texts. The Brazilian government’s attempt to expel the journalist undermined the efforts Lula’s administration has done since he took office in 2003 to build a different image from that of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez or Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
But what the American press often left out was that the president’s anger at the reporter was not without a reason. Rohter’s article is certainly not worth a Pulitzer Prize. Including but not limited to its headline, his article is untrustworthy. At least until when the Times published the controversial article, Lula’s ethylic habits could not be considered a “national concern,” as Rohter wrote. What the more of 180 millions Brazilians are really concerned about is unemployment, criminality, social security and health insurance.
And more important, Rohter’s article did not offer evidence that Lula’s drinking habit was beyond the “sociable”. Even if this had been the case, it’s unlikely that the largest and most populous country in South America’s population, 22% of which living bellow the poverty line, would consider the president’s fondness for alcohol a primordial concern.
José Simão, a columnist of one of Brazil’s most respected newspapers Folha de São Paulo mocked Rohter’s argument that Lula’s alcoholic influence could affect his performance in office. Simão wrote that Winston Churchill saved the world from the Nazis, even though he used to drown himself in gin.
Jokes aside, Rohter’s article is technically poor. It is limited to reproduce gossips and quotes from highly suspicious fonts, such as Leonel Brizola, a long-time political enemy of the president. The doubtful character of his font had to be stressed as Brizola made serious accusations against the president. But Rohter didn’t even mention this fact. Sadly, the Times stood by the accuracy of the article in its editorial. The publication, considered the most influential in the planet, could not distinguish gossip from information.
The Times was limited to condemn the Brazilian president’s authoritarian attitude. Bill Keller, executive editor of the publication, said that if Brazil ''intends to expel a journalist for writing an article that offended the president, that would raise serious questions about Brazil's professed commitment to freedom of expression and a free press.'' It did not mention, however, that not too long ago a similar case happened in the United States.
In 2003, Mohamad Hassan Alawi, an Iraqi correspondent in the headquarter of the United Nations in New York was considered “dangerous for the national security” and expelled of the country. Jose Genoino, the head of the Worker’s Party-- the same as Lula’s -- went even further in defending the President from American criticisms. Genoino said Americans were not qualified “to give lessons about democracy and freedom to Brazil” arguing that dozens of journalists have been prevented from entering the U.S. since the World Trade Center’s terrorist attacks in 2001.
Had Lula defended himself publicly he could righteously claim he had been a victim of a discreditable article. The population took Rohter’s article as an insult to their national pride and even Lula’s political opponents rallied around him when the Times published the article. Too bad Lula, who Time magazine’s recently named one of the 100 most influential people in the world, turned the cards against himself. Now the entire world has an actual reason to puzzle over his (lack of) sobriety.
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| Wednesday, 12-May-2004 00:00 |
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Em algum lugar entre New York e a Cidade do México
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