Archivo de la etiqueta: Brazil

the chess player – (en)

“The unipolar model of the world is over,” declared Vladimir Putin last week. As it tries to punish Russia for the latter’s dismemberment of Ukraine, the West is discovering that the balance of power isn’t what it used to be. … Seguir leyendo

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não-me-toque VI – (en)

They came together, commissar and coroner, with the pockets full of chips and cards. In their car we escaped to the bar of Clear, who ushered us into a corner, served the coffee, left open a bottle of cognac and, … Seguir leyendo

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não-me-toque III – (en)

The battered napkin map showed that I still had to gasp a few more meters to find the treasure. It was impossible to make them. A solemn police looking more as a cowboy than an investigator stepped out with half … Seguir leyendo

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não-me-toque II – (en)

That my first day at Alcatraz, in a clearly faulty act, I put the computer to charge. I showered with cold water —hot only between seven and nine in the evening—, shave, grant myself in the mirror a willing “approved” and went … Seguir leyendo

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não-me-toque I – (en)

It was still pitch dark when the Mallmann entered the village and the bus driver slammed on the brakes like an assault vehicle full of pigs with lengthy hunger to crush protesters. Não-Me-Toque (Don’t-Touch-Me), nearly 300 km clattering west from … Seguir leyendo

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lousiest civilization ever unearth – (en/es)

Archaeologists Unearth Lousiest Civilization Ever. ‘What a bunch of losers,’ researchers say. MANAUS, BRAZIL— Archaeologists working in a remote section of the Amazon Rainforest announced Tuesday that they have discovered the ancient remnants of what they claimed may be the … Seguir leyendo

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