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...said Charles D. Teague ’74 as he walked out of the screening of “From Brazil to Japan,” a new documentary directed by Aaron Litvin ’04 and Ana Paula Hirano Litvin, focusing on the new trend of Brazilian immigration to Japan. By crafting a film that highlights the personal experiences of such a journey, the Litvins illuminate both the struggles of immigration as a whole as well as the emotional issues that arise from an ever-globalizing world...
Tambellini, born in Syracuse, New York to an Italian mother and a Brazilian father, has always identified with black culture. The artist will turn 80 on April 29—“It’s the same date as the birthday of Duke Ellington. I’m a big fan of jazz,” Tambellini says. He grew up with his mom and his brother in a working class area of Lucca, a town in Tuscany. At age three he started painting (“I was born an artist,” he says...
...another with higher interest rates and where the currency may be appreciating. Last year a plunging dollar and the Fed's decision to slash rates made the U.S. currency ideal for funding carry trades. For example, selling the U.S. dollar to buy Australian dollars, Norwegian kroner and Brazilian reals yielded returns in excess...
...euro and yen are this year's dollar, what's on the flip side of the smart carry trade for 2010? Last year the Brazilian real was a currency on fire, appreciating 35% on interest rates that started 2009 at an unsustainable 13.75%. It was a situation that threatened to suffocate the economy, forcing the government to intervene in currency markets, cut interest rates nearly 40% and impose new taxes on foreign investment. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...center-right credentials set her apart from the other female heads of state in Latin America today: Chile's outgoing President, Michelle Bachelet, is a moderate socialist; Argentina's Cristina Fernández represents her Peronist Party's left wing; and the leading candidate in this year's Brazilian presidential election, Dilma Rousseff, hails from the leftist Workers Party. At the same time, Kaufman notes, Chinchilla follows a string of recent center-right presidential victors in the region, including Sebastián Piñera in Chile and Ricardo Martinelli in Panama, after a decade of leftward inertia. "Her election...