tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60107892012-02-16T15:00:23.940Z"I have no enemies. I dont permit such a thing." - Anton ChigurhPedrohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12065433911233791657noreply@blogger.comBlogger6151100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010789.post-18696952107630389442009-02-25T19:44:00.000Z2009-02-25T19:45:17.765Z

Still life

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Truth be toldIt begins with:"Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult - at least I have found it so - than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind."Charles Darwin, On Natural SelectionBut some of the results are worth it:

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Lupercalia

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We are not alone

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CustodietAll so that it would be a stronger worldA strong, though loving, worldTo die inJohn Cale

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IpsosAs far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being. - C. G. Jung

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Quis custodietWer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. Und wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein." - Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Böse

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Better, as Juvenal once said....And I'm up while the dawn is breaking, even though my hear is breaking. I should be drinking a toast ot absent friends instead of these comedians. - Elvis Costello

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Who watches...At midnight, all the agents and superhuman crew go out and round up everyone who knows more than they do. - Bob Dylan

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Mais uma que nunca pensei dizerMas Nadal a n.º 1 em várias coisas. Isto, senhores, é ter nível:Rafa Nadal, último Premio Príncipe de Asturias de los Deportes, piensa hacer campaña para que Roger Federer reciba el galardón este año. Su demostración de humanidad en Melbourne le impactó. Rafa Nadal quedó muy impresionado por la humanidad demostrada cuando rompió a llorar después de perder la final

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Hail to the ChiefBarack Hussein Obama, first President to hail from Hawaii.

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Música do ano

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Momento desportivo do ano Usain Bolt 100m 9.69 ( LIVE VIDEO ) Beijing Olympic Gold & WR - Click here for this week’s top video clips

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Filme do anoA primeira hora disto:

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Livro do ano.He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought the world's heart beat at some terrible cost and that the world's pain and its beauty moved in a relationship of diverging equity and that in this headlong deficit the blood of multitudes might ultimately be exacted for the vision of a single flower.

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Naturalmente depois disto...El Real Madrid destituye a SchusterBernd Schuster ya no es entrenador del Real Madrid. El club blanco le citó en las oficinas del Santiago Bernabéu y le comunicó su destitución. El alemán ya no dirigirá el entrenamiento del equipo previsto para esta tarde. Juande Ramos, hasta hace mes y medio entrenador del Tottenham, es el elegido para coger las riendas del equipo.

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Breaking news.Buraka Som Systema em Oxford! Na quarta!!! 10th WEDNESDAYEclectricity [presents]Electro, bassline, fidget house, b-more and other beatsBuraka Som Sistema (DJ & MC set) + Get Your Geek On! + Kartik Poria10pm - 3am£5 Advance more on the door www.wegottickets.com

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Real Madrid coach asks to be dismissed!.EL BARÇA ESTÁ ARRASANDO Y CREO QUE ESTE VA A SER SU AÑO" Schuster: "Ahora mismo no es posible ganar en el Camp Nou" El entrenador del Real Madrid, el alemán Bernd Schuster, rechazó asumir con resignación la situación en la que se encuentra el equipo, del que espera un "golpe de efecto" para revertir la dinámica en la que se

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That's what I'm here for...THERE are few better ways of upsetting a certain sort of politically correct person than to suggest that intelligence (or, rather, the variation in intelligence between individuals) is under genetic control. That, however, is one implication of a paper about to be published in Intelligence by Rosalind Arden of King’s College, London, and her colleagues. Another is that

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Super.

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Dublin.

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Impact.Let us imagine that Galaxy A moves at a given speed (let's say 27% of the speed of light) in a given vector, meaning that it will collide with Galaxy B which is moving at 15% of the speed of light in a vector which is directly perpendicular to that being followed by Galaxy A. Let us furthermore assume that it took 370,000 thousand years for the galaxies to cross each other - a low estimate

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Well, it did not take longFor Obama to be poked, as the Vice-President elect so honestly put it:In a wide-ranging attack on the United States, President Dmitri Medvedev of Russia warned Wednesday that Moscow might deploy short-range missiles in the Baltic region to counter a perceived threat from a proposed U.S. missile defense shield in eastern Europe.Medvedev also proposed to extend the

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It's an exageration, but it was one of the great moments of Demokratia since Pericles' oration to AtheniansWhat is it about loss that makes men so lovely? John McCain just gave the best speech of his political life. He looked tired, as he should. But he was inspired and profound, the noble soldier many wish had prevailed in 2000.My transcription may be imperfect, but the gist is clear and

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Well.First speech as President-ellect, sounds pretty good. Then again, it always does. Hope is the main word here. Not the best word, obviously, but then again, a very good word. It will not happen, but I would like to see the 2 candidates together. This is Democracy at its best, and truth be told, one of them is a great man. Let's hope that the one who has just be thrown into the world stage

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It's Official.From now on, anyone can be President of the United States. It's beautiful, on the one hand, but on the other, why do I feel so nervous? We shall talk about this in the end of January (in the worst of scenarios).

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Things to look at on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November~To see whether it is a complete blow-out, look at whether North Carolina turns blue - if it does, it will be over before midnight and someone is getting over 300 electoral votes..To see whether Obama wins confortably: Obama wins either Virginia, Florida or Ohio. If this happens, it might be a blowout or not, but in any case

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In praise of idleness.§1 - Cats that look like Hitler..§ 2 - Christopher Walken as Colonel AngusWatch more Saturday Night Live videos on AOL Video.§3 - Cork SoakersWatch more Saturday Night Live videos on AOL Video

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In due time, test the following hypothesis: - Am I too young to keep good love from going wrong?- Am I too young to hold on, but too old to just break out and run?

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Above and beyond.

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In praise of good neighbours I shall repeat myself:

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Viva o Alto Alentejo!! Vivam as colónias!! Vivam os Nélsons deste país!!!!

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Ah, ser emocional with the determination of a man possessed by a lyrical impulse. ...

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Ah, ser lógico "Malgré mes travers, et ils ont été nombreux, je suis resté de eux qui pensent que les seules choses indispensables à la vie humaine sont l'air, le manger, le boire et l'excrétion, et la recherche de la verité. Le reste est facultatif."

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Momento de reforço de confiança em padrões de vida já adoptados (Sim, nós podemos!!!) - ou porque é que a Rosa Mota nos vai sobreviver a todosDo Medical News Today, sobre "Reduced Disability and Mortality Among Aging Runners: A 21-Year Longitudinal Study."Eliza F. Chakravarty; Helen B. Hubert; Vijaya B. Lingala; James F. FriesArch Intern Med. 2008;168(15):1638-1646.Vol. 168 No. 15, Aug 11/25,

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Utopia (e, naturalmente, neo-platónico)Ainda que eu falasse as línguas dos homens e dos anjos, e não tivesse Amor, seria como o metal que soa ou como o sino que tine. E ainda que tivesse o dom da profecia, e conhecesse todos os mistérios e toda a ciência, e ainda que tivesse toda a fé, de maneira tal que transportasse os montes, e não tivesse Amor, nada seria. E ainda que distribuísse toda a

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Piérre de CoubertinNo Financial Times, mas essencialmente um Kuper de qualidade:While saying goodbye at Prague airport in 1966, the great Czechoslovak runner, Emil Zátopek, slipped a packet to the Australian Ron Clarke. Clarke had just been visiting Zátopek behind the Iron Curtain, and the Czech had been a wonderful host, Clarke later recalled.He and Zátopek were friends even though the Czech had

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Primeiros Jogos Olímpicos: Olímpia, há 2782 anosDo Financial Times:This Olympic fortnight we will hear horrible things about genetic doping, Tibet, and the colour of snot in polluted Beijing. Serious sport, said George Orwell, is “war minus the shooting”. Yet what saves the Games is that many athletes don’t experience them that way. For them, the Olympics really is the festival of international

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Por onde começar...."Já se sabe que Yannick Djaló apresta-se para ser pai pela primeira vez. Radiante, o próprio avançado leonino fez questão de antecipar a alegria que o aguarda na coreografia que encetou no relvado ao comemorar o primeiro dos seus dois tentos. O rapaz que a sua namorada Sofia, dará à luz dentro de mês e meio também já tem padrinho em Miguel Veloso, sempre eufórico, lembre-se, a

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Ah, às vezes lembro-me de porque é que o "Diplomacy" foi um elemento tão fundamental da minha educação.The Three Revolutions.By Henry Kissinger.The long-predicted national debate about national security policy has yet to occur. Essentially tactical issues have overwhelmed the most important challenge a new administration will confront: how to distill a new international order from three

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Como na Grécia onde nasceu. The division of Europe into a number of independent states, connected, however, with each other by the general resemblance of religion, language and manners, is productive of the most beneficial consequences to the liberty of mankind. A modern tyrant, who should find no resistance either in his own breast, or in his people, would soon experience a gentle restraint from

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Nomes brasileiros..The virtue of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was of a severer and more laborious kind [than that of Antoninus Pius]. It was the well-eraned harvest of many a leraned conference, of many a patient lecture, and many a midnight lucubration. At the age of twelve years he embraced the rigid system of the Stoics, which taught him to submit his body to his mind, his passions to his reason;

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Correndo o risco de me repetir.Ele é bom. Ele é mesmo muito bom. Mas isto é mais do que qualidade técnica. Isto é coragem e integridade: confia na inteligência e paciência dos eleitores; espera que eles sejam capazes de aceitar os seus próprios defeitos; e arrisca perder as eleições se esse não for o caso. Mas este discurso vai ser estudado durante décadas. Não é preciso ouvi-lo, basta lê-lo para

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Baralha e voltar a dar.Em Nova York, o 5º maior banco de investimento em Wall Street só não faliu porque a Federal Reserve concedeu uma linha de crédito de 30 mil milhões de dólares à J.P. Morgan para esta o comprar por uma pechincha - por cerca de um décimo do valor do prédio da sua sede, para termos uma ideia. Podemos perguntar-nos se a escolha da J.P. Morgan será uma homenagem ao papel do seu

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O meu mundo volta a ter algum sentidoDear fansAs you can imagine the beginning of this season has been rather tough for me. 2007 ended with an illness which cost me a lot of energy. I was unable to play at the beginning of January. I was still taking antibiotics five days before the Australian Open, making a recovery in time for the tournament impossible. During the time in Melbourne I felt

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Este blog está literalmente nas meretizes, mas:Porque é que el señor Clinton não se demitiu quando foi apanhado em perjúrio sobre isto:Hei, é o Conan O'brien com a Monica Lewinski...!E o ex-Governador de New York teve de se demitir por ter passado uma noite com este claro upgrade:Foi por ter sido pago, por o cargo ser de menor importância ou por o Exmo. Sr. Presidente usar a sua pouca-vergonha

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Quer dizer, nem sei muito bem porque é que ponho isto aqui.Mas tem de ser. Tem mesmo. Peço desculpa. E a resposta:

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Pois que a mais antiga profissão do mundo não surgiu sozinha.“A mediação deve ser tão antiga quanto o comércio (...). O mediador era o proxeneta: de pro-xeneo, dar hospitalidade, assistir, tratar. Provém o termo do verbo grego προξενέυ: o interessar-se por qualquer coisa ou o visar-se um determinado fim. Nas fontes, o proxeneta surge tratado por Ulpiano, em fragamentos inseridos nos Digesta.

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E foi a chatice do costume.Com a agravante de toda a gente parecer aborrecida: os Cohen pareciam estar a controlar-se para não gozarem com toda a gente (e só eles levaram 3 óscares para casa cada), o Daniel Day-Lewis nem pestanejou ao tornar-se o primeiro não-americano a ganhar 2 óscares para melhor actor, a melhor actriz secundária estava a ver a cerimónia pela primeira vez e deu tanta

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Efemérides que faz sentido celebrar..De acordo com o Público, em 24 de Janeiro de 1935 foi vendida a primeira cerveja de lata, a "Krueger Cream Ale," da Kruger Brewing Company de Richmond, Virginia. Foi precedida por um teste de mercado com 2,000 latas: teve 91% de aprovação e 85% dos inquiridos afirmaram que sabia mais a cerveja de pressão do que a cerveja de garrafa..Faz hoje 72 anos.

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Hubris.Lembrai-vos acaso, senhores, da longínqua data em que tentei prever o futuro? Pois que acertei três evidentes, falhei um que tinha como óbvio e fui surpreendido por uma novidade. Fúrias, aprendi minha lição.

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Sim, é sobre o Huckabee outra vez

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E a propósito de cruzamentos estranhos.Há malta com tempo a mais.

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Animais engraçados, cruzamentos estranhos. e

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Como Camus dizia....O suicídio é a única questão filosófica importante (ou qualquer coisa com este sentido). E como o bom do "sweet prince" o colocou, "To sleep, perchance to dream. Aye, there is the rub." Porque de facto, em relação ao "undiscovered country", "conscience doth make cowards of us all."

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Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains, You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in you hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be out back. Not be made

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Os prometidos vídeosMcCain, New Hampshire (70% da população apoia o regresso imediato das tropas do Iraque), 5 dias antes de umas primárias que não pode perder sob pena de ver terminada a sua carreira política:Esta é um bónus:E aqui, todas as razões (e mais algumas) pelas quais Obama pode ganhar. Adorava ser capaz de dizer aquele "They saaiiiiid". E quem não ficar emocionado com aquele "Hope...

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Tava para aqui a ver o Sporting.Mas é demasiado duro. Os centrais estão a jogar tão mal que conseguem fazer com que o Ronny pareça um grande defesa esquerdo, ainda ninguém percebeu que o Veloso defende mal e não devia jogar a trinco mas sim mais à frente (e mais à esquerda), um dos avançados perderia em corrida com o meu primo Tomás (menos de 10 anos e a precisar de crescer uns centímetros) em

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A Família é para isto

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Mostrar o que digo.É isto, entre outras coisas, que se passa na China:

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Parece que é possível.Na sequência dos resultados das primárias de ontem no Iowa (não vos dou links, ide a qualquer jornal internacional de referência), parece que os meus candidatos favoritos se podem defrontar na "Final":.vs.

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O Balanço

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O momentoBlue Moon, 1 de Julho, 00:33

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O Momento Desportivo.

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O Video Clip

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A música[Messiaen, Thème et variations]

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O Livro"When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night he'd reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him. Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more gray each one than what had gone before. Like the onset of some cold glaucoma dimming away the world. His hand rose and fell softly with each precious breath. He pushed away the plastic tarpaulin and raised himself in the

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A Personalidade

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O filmeççpº

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Um Natal diferente, mais sérioMessiaen, Dieux parmi nous, La Nativité du Seigneur

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Ler folhas de chá.Entre as várias resoluções de ano novo que finjo adoptar, uma que abandono ano após ano é a de não me armar em esperto (a outra é vestir-me melhor, mas esta mais tarde ou mais cedo vou ter de adoptar). Claro que, por uma questão de decoro, convém tentar expurgar-me de todos os vícios antes do fim de mais um ciclo solar, e é por isso que acho importante dizer aqui , e desde já,

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Opções de vida."Dayton, who is forty-three, is tall and bald, with watery blue eyes. He is named for another Ralph Dayton, a shoemaker born in 1588, in Kent, England. (Many Dayton descendants live in the area.) He attended East Hamptons High School. His father was a lawyer, his grandfather a farmer. "Growing up here was pretty special," he said. "Not like it is today. There was none of this

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Se Chuck diz, Huck será...E diga-se que, a julgar pelas sondagens, poderá bem vir a ser pelo menos o candidato republicano

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Preconceito.Experimentem clicar aqui e escolher o teste Raça.O resultado é educativo.

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Memórias de uma vida aquática.E de flirts conexos

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Isto explica MUITA coisa (se ao menos for verdade)So, yes, the stereotypes appear to be true: We males are a gender of fragile egos in search of a pretty face and are threatened by brains or success that exceeds our own. Women, on the other hand, care more about how men think and perform, and they don't mind being outdone on those scores.Another clear gender divide, this one less expected,

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Isto explica MUITA coisa (se ao menos fosse verdade)

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Ser do Sporting é isto....É sofrer desnecessariamente, é perder finais europeias em casa, é passar toda a infância e adolescência sem ver o clube ganhar nada (mesmo num campeonato tão competitivo como o português), é formar jogadores para eles ganharem campeonatos aos nossos rivais e orgulhar-mo-nos disso - e aplaudi-los quando nos marcam golos, inclusivé(!) -, é ficar satisfeito porque se perdeu

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A avaliar pelo desenvolvimento da primeira fase da estratégia, somos uns patos.(...) Those in the United States may not have an agreed theory of victory or a path to get there, but Osama bin Laden and his cohorts certainly do. Bin Laden's goal, as he, his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and others have often articulated, is to drive the United States out of Muslim lands, topple the region's current

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Eu devo ter qualquer coisa com peluches gigantes em vídeos de música....

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Coisas estranhas.

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It's not television, it's Home Box Office.E não é que a mesma malta que me (sim, estou-me bem a marimbar para o resto do mundo, a HBO é o meu maná particular), me, dizia eu, me trouxe isto:...E isto: ..e ainda isto:.ainda tem o descaramento de me trazer isto:.Um gajo fica perdido. E para se orientar vai à New Yorker. Ou, ao contrário do que sucedeu entre Maomé e a montanha, a New Yorker vem até

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Humor negro

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É assim, viagens tão boas, tão boas, que têm de ser notícia nos jornais.Quem quiser saber em mais detalhe como foi a viagem ao Império do Meio, é ir ao Semanário Económico, abrir a revista Casual na secção Lifestyle e ler o que a nossa corajosa companheira ruiva tem a dizer sobre o assunto.

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Sofismas?.Olivier Roy, in his short discursive essay Secularism Confronts Islam, exposes the historical roots of laïcité and its implications for France's Muslim communities. Though underpinned by the 1905 law of separation between church and state, laïcité extends far beyond the setting of institutional boundaries. It is a full-blown statist ideology whose pedigree stretches back to the Jacobin

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Alguém me diz porque é que isto não é considerado relevante por estas bandas?.Quer dizer, posso ser eu que não percebo nada disto, mas se isto acontecesse:Turkey approves Iraq incursionTurkey's parliament voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to authorize sending troops into northern Iraq to confront Kurdish rebels in hideouts there, sending an angry message to the Baghdad government and its

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Mundividências: UEFA.Neste preciso momento a nossa Selecção Nacional está a jogar (mal) em Almaty com o Cazaquistão a qualificação para o Campeonato Europeu de Futebol de 2008. .O Cazaquistão é o nono maior país do mundo, com uma área equivalente à de toda a Europa Ocidental. As suas fronteiras são com a China, a Rússia, o Quirguistão, o Turquemenistão, o Uzebequistão e o Mar Cáspio. Dois terços

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Coisas dificeis.In studying a philosopher, the right attitude is neither reverence nor contempt, but first a kind of hypothetical simpathy, until its possible to know what it feels like to believe in his theories, and only then a revival of the critical attityde, which should resemble, as far as possible, the state of mind of a person abandoning opinions he has hitherto held. Contempt interferes

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E republicarei isto até ele ganharDo direito à tendência (com pequenas emendas).A verdade é que sou um sacana tendencioso. Tento evitar sê-lo nas coisas importantes, mas nas outras deixo-me ir. O direito à tendência não é mais que o direito à diversão, à escolha arbitrária alegremente irresponsável, à declaração de perfeição não sustentada em qualquer raciocínio crítico. O direito à tendência é,

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Declaração de intenções pós-positivista."Philosophy, as I shall understand the word, is something intermediate between theology and science. Like theology, it consists of speculations on matters as to which definite knowledge has, so far, been unascertainable; but, like science, it appeals to human reason rather than authority, whether that of tradition or that of revelation. All definite

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De regresso? Será possível?Depois de um mês extraordinariamente intenso, da China a Odemira, de Chaves a Londres, com um pequeno intervalo de muito intensa labuta, este blog quer estar de volta. E está preparado para ir até ao fim do mundo para o fazer.

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A saga do lótus azul.Nos próximos 15 dias trocarei Lisboa, e a uma vida de intensa e desgastante labuta, pela demanda de um sonho de infância ainda mais desgastante e intenso: descobrir se é verdadeiro o mito do "Lótus Azul do Império do Meio". Espero vir a ter tempo para descrever, neste mesmo local, as peripécias com que me depararei. .Só que como a perseguição dos sonhos é coisa que sempre

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Algures para a semana.~Somewhere deep (...), in a vast subterranean palace, lies the First Emperor, Qin Shi Huangdi. According to legend, he is interred in a gold casket sitting in a lake of liquid mercury. Snaking out across the 80-metre-long floor are streams of mercury that map the routes of those great waterways, the Yangtze and the Yellow River. The 15-metre-high ceiling is encrusted with

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Viajar como se vive.Querer ver e fazer tudo; paulatinamente reconhecer que não há tempo para tanto e que se é menos capaz do que pensava.

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Republicação/Reiteração.Primeiro, as verdades. O Norte é mais Português que Portugal. As minhotas são as raparigas mais bonitas do País. O Minho é a nossa província mais estragada e continua a ser a mais bela. As festas da Nossa Senhora d'Agonia são as maiores e mais impressionantes que já se viram.Viana do Castelo é uma cidade clara. Não esconde nada. Não há uma Viana secreta. Não há outra Viana

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Fins de semana assim é outro nível.Sexta feira: filetes de polvo no Porto.Sábado: rojões com papas de sarrabulho em Ponte de Lima ao almoço; espetada de tamboril à noite no Porto. Domingo: robalo cozido em algas em Afife.

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Factos.As mulheres deste país têm uma ética de trabaçho muito superior à dos homens..

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Grandes últimas cenas (que não o são) ."All those moments will be lost in time like tears in the rain. Time to die.".Improvisado por Rutger Hauer no próprio dia da filmagem (e como tal inexistente no fabuloso "Do androids dream of electric sheep?")

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Diagnósticos."The symptonms of this developmental disorder include early precocity, a great ability to maintain masses of information, a lack of ability to mix with groups in age-appropriate ways, ignorance of or indifference to social norms, high intelligence and difficulty with transitions, married to a preternatural ability to concentrate on the minutia of the task at hand.".David Mamet, "

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1000 coisas a fazer antes de morrer.

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