Senator Flávio Bolsonaro declined on Monday to recognize the results of Sunday’s presidential election, which President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won by more than four million votes, and said he would petition to have the result annulled — a course of action that, in his family’s experience, ends in a specific place.
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The Secretary of Defense broke Dwight D. Eisenhower’s globe in the spring, and the government has been making do with a replacement that preservation officials describe as having “significantly less history” and “a noticeably lower purchase price.” Reached for comment, the Secretary’s mother said she had warned him.
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The President announced that dishonest officials “have to be prosecuted” — a policy that ran into a problem of supply. Nearly every white-collar defense lawyer in Washington has already been retained by an official in his administration, and the Justice Department office responsible for prosecuting corrupt public officials currently has two attorneys.
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Four hundred pings from one lavender patch. Fourteen butterflies detained, then released. “Hatching here makes them citizens, technically.”
The episode lasted four hours. Symptoms included reading a full briefing and asking what the victims’ families might want. He has since recovered.
An earlier edition of this newspaper reproduced a presidential map in which a hand-drawn circle labeled “Stockholm” appeared over Finland. The circle was the President’s. Finland is not Stockholm. Sweden is the yellow one in the middle. We regret nothing.
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