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A lecture by Rashid Khalidi

Posted in English, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 31, 2008 | 7 Comments »

BY: LUCIANA COELHO – From Folha de São Paulo – One of the Brazilian main newspapers – From USA – READ IN PORTUGUESE HERE
TRANSLATED: VINÍCIUS WERNECK (me!)
Last year, on March, while I was visiting New York, my friend Gustavo Chacra carried me to watch with him, a master’s class that he was doing in Columbia. [...]

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Is Obama already there?

Posted in English, tagged , , , , , , , on October 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »

I’m really busy here, you can’t believe how much! My life is crazy, upside down… I’m going to USA within 30 days and I need to find a job out there… But during these days, things are not easy life last year.
Anyway, I would like to know from you about this election. Do you really think Obama is [...]

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POLL: The Jews and Obama

Posted in English, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I saw lots of sites in the Jewish community against Obama. I saw a couple in favor. But I have some trouble making this out… Generally, Jews are against Obama or not? Let’s use this poll for discovering something…
Vote below!
Tnx!

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Why women like Obama?

Posted in English, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I’m really interested… Why women give better score to Obama during Second Presidential Debate? You can notice this by CNN Focus Group. Look bellow for images and comments about it. Please, help my curiosity by answering this! Use comments bellow or in the previous post!
V. Werneck

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Why women give higher scores during presidential debates?

Posted in English, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »

This debate was different from the first one. Not just the methods and the rules, but the atmosphere itself.
Obama had a better strategy, trying to link McCain to Bush,  like remembered Paul Begala (CNN). He was also, on my understanding, way more didactic: pointing his plans and comparing to McCain’s.
But one point particularly jumped out on me: [...]

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Brazilian Election Results

Posted in English, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »

From 8 am to 5 pm, Brazilian election took place yesterday. We voted here for mayor and alderman. The Brazilian system is proportional for alderman and majority for the mayor.
The majority election system is simple: the candidate who receives the most number of votes wins. Ah, it`s always good to remember that our system is with [...]

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How Palin actually performed during the debate?

Posted in English, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on October 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »

I can`t understand why so many people liked the way Palin debated last Thursday. I don`t know if the problem reason are my Brazilian eyes, or if Palin moved charmingly enough her eyelashes and her mouth, so the guys stopped paying attention to the subject itself.
This is not because she is a woman, please! [...]

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Biden Vs Palin – Vice-presidential debate

Posted in English, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »

The vice-presidential debate just finished and I could not stop me comming here to say Biden made a great job. Palin, as well, made a good job, but let me say this…
When you expect Palin to say lots of non-sense stuff and she just disappoints you with pasteurized sentences: she makes a great job.
But when [...]

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