30 September 2013
By Len Port, Contributor (*) “It’s the science, stupid! Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and action is urgent,” tweeted Connie Hedegaard, the EU’s She could have added that Portugal, along with Denmark and Sweden, are showing the way.commissioner for climate action after Friday’s presentation in Stockholm of the most exhaustive and authoritative […]
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30 September 2013
Prime Minister Passos Coelho conservative Social Democrat Party (PSD) was defeat in the Sunday municipal elections, after pool projections revealed the opposition Socialist Party (PS) had won 36.7 percent of the vote with the Social Democrats garnering just 18.9 percent. “We had the goal of retaining the majority of town halls but that didn’t happen,” […]
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29 September 2013
Thomas Cousineau, professor emeritus at Washington College, has released An Unwritten Novel: Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of the Disquiet a new book offering an insight into the work of Portuguese Modernist writer Fernando Pessoa. Published by Dalkey Archive Press, the book focuses on Pessoa’s writings collected in The Book of Disquiet published posthumously. Cousineau discovered Pessoa’s posthumous book […]
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26 September 2013
By Millicent Borges Accardi, Contributor (*) José Luís Peixoto, one of Portugal’s best selling writers, was referred to by Nobel Prize writer José Saramago as “the most surprising revelation in recent Portuguese literature.” To his credit, Peixoto has published three poetry collections, four novels, a non-fiction book, and three short story collections. In 2001, he […]
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23 September 2013
By André Darlington, Contributor (*) When Candide and Pangloss arrive in Lisbon, the two just narrowly survive a shipwreck in the harbor. Then the city is promptly destroyed by an earthquake. During the mayhem Candide is injured, but instead of rushing to help him, Pangloss considers the finer points of their situation. Such is the […]
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21 September 2013
By Len Port, Contributor (*) How times have changed in a few fractious years! An alarming number of once prosperous Portuguese have joined the so-called “embarrassed poor,” unable to afford even basic food needs and dependent on handouts. Severe austerity measures and high unemployment have caused the steady disintegration of middle class society. Poverty has […]
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