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Carnival time for Brazils economy
May 3 2008, Trevor

It was an incongruous sight. King Carl XVI Gustaf, bespectacled monarch of Sweden, and President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the bush-bearded populist who has governed Brazil since 2003, riding a downtown bus in Stockholm last autumn. The reason the two...

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