Opinion: The Curmudgeon on the Sacred Cow, a Smidgen
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Brazil’s most sacred cow is Petrobras. When calved in 1953, its...
January 30, 2015Section
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Opinion: Irony and Indonesia, a Smidgen
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Brazil abolished the death penalty when it became a Republic in...
January 19, 2015 Opinion: Brazil and the Not-so-Magic Mountain
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Thomas Mann’s mammoth novel is set in a sanatorium in a...
January 18, 2015 Opinion: Who Were Those Guys? a Smidgen
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Yesterday, December 13th, was the 46th anniversary of the promulgation by...
December 14, 2014 Opinion: A Tale of Two Countries, a Smidgen
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Yesterday’s headline news from the U.S. was utterly depressing, if not...
December 11, 2014 Opinion: Lula Knew? Dilma Knew? Now what?
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – It is difficult these days to read the newspapers and not...
December 10, 2014 Opinion: Uncle Sam Wants You! a Smidgen
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – One of the little noted features of the “Lava-Jato” scandal has...
December 1, 2014 Opinion: Wynken, Blynken and Nod, a Smidgen
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – From the beginning of the 1889 poem by Eugene Field: “Wynken,...
November 30, 2014Opinion: The Curmudgeon on the Power Struggle
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The title is misleading, because there are several power struggles currently...
November 27, 2014