Time Magazine: Lula the “most influential leader of 2010″

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva with a remarkable title and: according to the turnout of the voting the online site of the United States magazine unveiled, the former 2009 Man of the Year for Le Monde is now the “most influential leader of 2010,” according to one of the lists belonging to the Time 100 issue covering “the people who most affect our world.”

“Leaders,” “Artists,” “Heroes,” “Thinkers,” among other lists are the ones featured in the site. Bill Clinton is the number one at the “Heroes” list; Lady Gaga appears at the top artist and Zaha Hadid is the number one thinker.

This year’s is the seventh annual “The Most Influential People” list in Time magazine. People had been allowed to vote for days in order to form the ranking. Lula, 64 years old and two terms of office as Brazil’s Head of State, was placer over United States President Barack Obama, who was the fourth leader in the list.

According to the article that portraits a Lula picture, “when Brazilians first elected Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva President in 2002, the country’s robber barons nervously checked the fuel gauges on their private jets. They had turned Brazil into one of the most inequitable places on earth, and now it looked like payback time. Lula, 64, was a genuine son of Latin America’s working class – in fact, a founding member of the Workers’ Party – who’d once been jailed for leading a strike.”

The three failed attempts that Lula had to face in order to be a first-time president were also mentioned in the Time review: they are used to justify the Brazilian leader for being “a familiar figure in Brazilian national life.”

from: http://www.theamericaspostes.com/1448/time-magazine-lula-the-most-influential-leader-of-2010/

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Shrek IV

Shrek’s back, and this time it’s personal. After making a deal with Rumplestiltskin, he finds himself in a world where he never met Princess Fiona and where the land of Far Far Away has gone from bad to worse. But since this new poster calls the result Shrek: The Final Chapter, let’s hope that he still gets to live happily ever after, eh?Judging by this artwork, Rumplestiltskin is a baddie in the mad scientist mode. Voiced by Walt Dohrn (an animation writer rather than an actor), he pulls a George Burns on our green hero and sends him into a nightmarish alternate world, which Shrek must try to fix. And by the looks of it, he’s backed up by the entire cast of Wicked.Shrek: The Final Chapter is out in the UK on July 2.

Creativity never ends

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Would-be Teen Robber Asks Clerk Not To Tell Mom

SALT LAKE CITY (March 25, 2010) – Police said a teenager who botched a robbery at a Salt Lake City convenience store asked the clerk not to tell his mom. Salt Lake City police said the teen went into the store early Saturday morning and approached the counter with several items. As the clerk rung them up, the teen tried to sneak behind him and hold a knife to his neck. The clerk spun around with his hands up and smacked the teen in the face, knocking him to the floor.

The teen then asked the clerk not to call the police and then added “Don’t tell my mom” before he fled.