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  • One days after Elliott Carter and 14 days after Claude Levi-Strauss, Manoel de Oliveira is turning 100 today.

    Manoel de Oliveira at 100 2008

  • Portuguese coaching decision: Antonio Oliveira is to find out by the end of next week whether he will keep his job as coach of

    USATODAY.com - Notes: All-Star consideration, handball rule 2002

  • The State - represented advocate Jan d'Oliveira from the National

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • The constants in Oliveira’s work are the visual and tactile qualities of wood that has been exposed to the elements, and though he incorporates new, flexible plywood into his work, his primary material remains the discarded wood collected on the streets of São Paulo.

    Henrique Oliveira at the Rice Gallery 2009

  • At Monday's sentencing, the prosecutor called Oliveira "a self-controlling father" who made his daughter sign a contract stipulating that if she dated a black man, both of them would be killed, 10News.com reports.

    USATODAY.com News 2011

  • The reviewer listed some of the people who came out on the side of the angels over D'Oliveira's exclusion from the party to tour South Africa in 1968-9 - John Arlott, Ray Illingworth, Revd David Sheppard, Mike Brearley, Tom Graveney - and commented:

    Archive 2005-12-01 2005

  • The reviewer listed some of the people who came out on the side of the angels over D'Oliveira's exclusion from the party to tour South Africa in 1968-9 - John Arlott, Ray Illingworth, Revd David Sheppard, Mike Brearley, Tom Graveney - and commented:

    Basil D'Oliveira and Ealing Studios 2005

  • Mandela joked that he hoped journalists did not mind him putting on the blazer, adding he was not sure his vest was clean, before removing his shirt and posing with the blazer and tie at d'Oliveira's side for photographs.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • Then South African Prime Minister John Vorster objected to d'Oliveira's inclusion in the team, resulting in the cancellation of the tour and the start of South Africa's international sport isolation.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • The dockets allegedly implicate high ANC officials in various acts of violence during the 1980s and are to be handed over to Jan d'Oliveira's office within the next few days.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

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