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  • Bayer Leverkusen bid for Corinthians Romarinho

    Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen has reportedly made a bid to sign highly rated Brazilian playmaker Romarinho. The German outfit has offered Corinthians 12 million euros to secure the 22-year-old in the European summer transfer window, reports Xinhua. Romarinho emerged on Brazil's football scene last year as a striker but has been transformed into an attacking midfielder by Corinthians coach ...

  • Rousseff opens Brasilia World Cup stadium

    Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff officially opened Brasilia's Mane Garrincha World Cup stadium. Despite controversy surrounding delays and cost overruns, Rousseff said the 71,000-seat venue was now the source of pride among Brazilians, reports Xinhua. "A year ago they said that we wouldn't build our stadiums, that they wouldn't be ready. But now we are seeing that the stadiums have been ...

  • Santos coach concerned at Neymar reports

    Santos coach Muricy Ramalho has admitted concern at mounting speculation linking his star striker Neymar with a move to Barcelona. The Catalan club's football director Raul Sanllehi had met with Santos officials during the week to negotiate a deal for the Brazil international striker, reports Xinhua. Ramalho believes the innuendo has had a negative impact on the 21-year-old. "I have said so ...

  • Vitor Belfort Jacare Souza treat Brazilian fans to special night at UFC on FX 8

    Vitor Belfort, from Brazil, celebrates after defeating Michael Bisping, from Britain during their middleweight mixed martial arts bout at the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Sunday, Jan. 20, ...

  • In Brazil Dominos makes rented DVDs smell like pizza

    In Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, Domino's has teamed up with 10 rental stores to use movie DVDs for an unusual marketing push. Users pop in a rented DVD like they would any other, and after they've watched the film and take the disc out, the DVD disc shows a picture of a pizza and emits the aroma of one of Domino's ...

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Patch Adams

Patch Adams

"Patch Adams" would have been a much better movie if it had been more about its real-life subject and less about Robin Williams. Don't get me wrong--Williams is a fine actor, and in the right project with the right director, he can be sheer dynamite. Unfortunately, "Patch Adams" is not the right project for him because it's too much of what we've already seen before in better movies like "Good Mor ... ...

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  • ALADI Announces First Latin American Meeting on Commerce

    Montevideo, May 19 (Prensa Latina) A first Latin American trade and investment meeting, ExpoAladi, will be held here next year, jointly announced the Uruguayan government and the Latin American Integration Association (ALADI). To promote this event and start a mutual cooperation, Aladi Secretary General, Carlos Alvarez, and the director of the Institute Uruguay XXI, Roberto Villamil signed an ...

  • Safer Soccer Brazil Launches Massive Military Campaign Ahead Of FIFA Games

    Brazil's military prepares for a massive undertaking ahead of FIFA soccer games next month. The country has one of the more sophisticated miltary in the world and will try to show Brazilians and foreigners that the country will be safe and ready for the FIFA World Cup 2014 and the Summer Olympics in 2016. With just a year away before the FIFA World Cup games in Brazil, Latin ...

  • World science map grim for Latin America

    The highly respected Nature Scientific Reports journal has just published a map of the world's leading science cities and it looks pretty bad for emerging countries: It shows the planet's Northern Hemisphere full of lights and the south almost solidly ...

  • El Salvador Court Requests More Time To Consider “Urgent” Abortion Case

    (Photo: Beatrice Murch) A pregnant Salvadoran, whose life is at risk due to her unborn baby, may not be able to abort due to the country's ban on therapeutic abortion. Doctors have told 21-year-old Name Beatriz, who is 23 weeks pregnant, that her life is in danger because she is suffering from Lupus, an autoimmune disease. Her child has also been diagnosed with anencephaly, a cephalic ...

  • El Salvador recognizes Palestinian state

    El Salvador recognizes Palestinian state Palestine-El Salvador, Politics, 8/26/2011 El Salvador Thursday recognized Palestine as an independent and sovereign state, according to Palestinian officials. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas thanked the president of El Salvador for the recognition, expressing hope that it will bolster bilateral relations. Foreign Minister Riyad Malki had ...

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