Word: brazilians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Brazilian immigrant appeared before the Cambridge License Commission last night in an attempt to recover the thousands that he paid to Miss Anna, formerly a Cambridge-based palm reader, over a two-year period...
...country needs, at certain moments, to come together around an idea that makes it proud of itself," said President Jacques Chirac at Tuesday's Bastille Day celebration. He was referring not to 1789's storming of the Bastille, but to last Sunday's storming of the Brazilian goal by France's World Cup soccer heroes, which brought 3 million people onto the streets of Paris. "This is the biggest thing that's happened since the liberation of Paris in 1944," says TIME Paris correspondent Bruce Crumley. "It has taken a nation that has been down in the dumps...
...however, newer immigrant groups areemerging and influencing politics. Hamilton saysSomerville's Haitian, Brazilian and El Salvadorianaction groups are some of the city's most vocalpolitical organizations...
Following the trajectory of American pop music divas and Brazilian futbol stars, the restaurant formerly known as Anago Bistro has lost the "Bistro"--both in name and spirit--and gained some attitude. After a move downtown to the swanky Lenox Hotel and a complete make-over, Anago has ratcheted up its image a few major notches. In its previous incarnation at 798 Main Street (now home of Salts Restaurant), Anago Bistro was a hidden gem--intimate, understated, and consistently excellent. Alas, popularity corrupts. With the move toward self-iconization and the strategic new location, Anago's former cachet has been...
...fight--and it is still a fight--has got easier in the past few years as the government has become more aware of the environment. World leaders, from U.S. Vice President Al Gore to Brazilian Senator Marina Silva, are building constituencies around the green vote. "They know that the remarkable strength the environment has in opinion polls today can only translate into the polling place in the next century," says Duane Silverstein, executive director of the Goldman Foundation in San Francisco, which hands out annual $100,000 prizes to environmentalists. As a result, environmentalism can expect to attract more Mitrauds...