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...approach the fifteenth anniversary of the Plano Real, Brazil’s state of affairs is better than at any other time in its history. Growth prospects are exceptional and the numerous Federal Police operations, and the Dantas sentencing, evidence the reforms that have strengthened the country’s institutions in the past years. The continuation of these reforms will assure Brazil’s long-term growth and its future place among the great economic powers of the world, perhaps along other BRICs. In the meantime, let’s sit back and wait to see who gets...
Firearm homicides in Australia were declining before 1996 and the decline has simply continued at the same rate since, McPhedran says. (In 2002-3, Australia's rate of 0.27 gun-related homicides per 100,000 people was one-fifteenth that of the U.S. rate.) Of course, it's possible there might have been a spike in firearm homicides - and one or more Port Arthur-style events - if not for the gun law reforms. "It's very easy to raise what-ifs," McPhedran counters. "The what-ifs are interesting as discussion points. But, ultimately, for policy making, we have to deal...
Change is progress, some would argue, but sometimes the essentials don’t need to be fixed. John Darnielle’s “Heretic Pride” is his fifteenth full album under the name of the Mountain Goats, and it finds the singer-songwriter eager to explore the same ups and downs of domestic living in a way that artfully captures truth. If you closely study the structural skeletons of Darnielle’s songs, you can hear the echoes of a decade’s worth of Mountain Goats tracks. But instead of the intimate...
...explains “For this was on seynt Volantynys day / Whan euery bryd comyth there to chese [choose] his make [mate].” The jump from bird breeding to human displays of affection for St. Valentine’s Day emerged sometime in the fifteenth century, according to Watson. During this time, people first began to address each other as “Valentine” and send each other little gifts as tokens of their affection. Since that era, the tradition of mailing cards to loved ones gradually spread to Britain and eventually to the United States...
...Volleyball Tournament. “Katherine’s our most consistent passer and highest digger,” said volleyball head coach Jennifer Weiss. “She plays with a lot of personality, and she’s a great player.” Weiss, in her fifteenth year at the helm of the women’s volleyball program, first met Kocurek when the standout libero was a junior at Kingwood High School in Kingwood, Texas. “She sat in my office and said, ‘I love Harvard. I love everything about...