Word: porto
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...completely understand whatit says and mistranslates the meaningto a girl he is trying to impress. Playfultouches such as this are a hallmark ofFurtado’s films.“Houve” follows two teenage boys,Chico and Juca, over the course of twosummers at the beach near Porto Alegre,Brazil. Furtado was inspired to write thescript for his son, actor Pedro Furtado(who plays the character of Juca) and Pedro’sfellow classmates in drama school.“For class projects, Pedro and hisfriends would do renditions of WoodyAllen films and other scripts with adultcharacters...
...mark as a real estate mogul and media entrepreneur, and becoming Italy's richest man. Berlusconi came into politics in 1994 billed as the ultimate outsider, scoffing at Rome's stuffy establishment and passing his downtime singing Neapolitan love ballads and frequenting his palatial villa in Sardinia's Porto Cervo. His refusal to resolve a gargantuan conflict of interest, as owner of Italy's three main private television stations, made him controversial. So too did his frequent gaffes, unintended and otherwise, including telling Wall Street executives that Italy was worthy of investment for the beauty of its secretaries and calling...
...particular, is proving irresistible in the developing world. In Brazil, when Microsoft offered to install Windows in school computers pro bono, Brazil's chief technology officer caused a stir by comparing the company to drug dealers giving the first hit free. The cities of So Paulo, Recife and Porto Alegre are all running Linux, and the federal government aims to have 40% of all government systems using it by 2006. --By Andrew Downie/So Paulo
...jewelry designer at David Yurman, is now focused exclusively on her own jewelry line SISU, which has seen meager but successful sales for the past two years. And it doesn’t stop with alumni. Anotnio A. Pino ’10’s shirt company Di Porto has sold out of samples, and mainly due to Harvard’s business. Timothy M. Parent ’09, whose charity fashion show Project East is slated for a November 4th exhibition and banquet, was written about in The Boston Globe...
...Although Porto's family supports her fighting career, others in Jua, a conservative Catholic town some four hours from the city of Sao Paulo, don't quite understand why a young woman wants to get into a ring and fight so brutally. "People don't understand that I look at this as a job," she says. "I never think that I hate my opponent or that I want to kill them. I am just there to do my job, and to do it well...