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  • The whole narrative of the novel, therefore, is bracketed into a literary game — and, as Sant'Anna points out, the figure of the game is central in A

    Children Playing by the Sea: the Dynamics of Appropriation in the Brazilian Romantic Novel 2006

  • He is usually a charming, seductive guy, who of course likes women, said Stefan Collignon, a former top official in Germany's finance ministry and now a professor of political economy at Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa and international chief economist of the Centro Europa Ricerche in Rome.

    Reuters: Top News 2011

  • A collaboration with the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies of Pisa that began in 1995 made the town a testing ground for advanced research into aging, telepresence, alternative energy, environmental protection, and more.

    Slate Magazine Frank Swain 2011

  • "The whole German debate about a default of Greece is a German debate, not a European debate," said Stefan Collignon, a former German Finance Ministry official and political economist at the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, Italy.

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2011

  • Sant'Anna himself, as a musician, is constantly on tour with the bands he plays with.

    IPS Inter Press Service Fabiana Frayssinet 2010

  • Sant'Anna says that it can hardly be credited, but many children have never been outside their favela or their neighbourhood.

    IPS Inter Press Service Fabiana Frayssinet 2010

  • Sant'Anna used a sound system to introduce them to other styles "to find out what got to them," such as high quality Brazilian pop music, classical music, Latin American and international music.

    IPS Inter Press Service Fabiana Frayssinet 2010

  • Sant'Anna said that in a community like Terra Encantada, with the worst human development indicators in Rio de Janeiro, it is hard to compete with the appeal of the drug mafias, which become more powerful the more media coverage they get, and whose members are looked up to as role models and "heroes."

    IPS Inter Press Service Fabiana Frayssinet 2010

  • These children have nothing, except "the oppression of society, which is even worse than that of the police," says musician Sant'Anna, creator of the "Enchanted Guitars" project.

    IPS Inter Press Service Fabiana Frayssinet 2010

  • Although Sant'Anna acknowledges that rap music "reflects part of society," he feels it does not generally have a "positive" message.

    IPS Inter Press Service Fabiana Frayssinet 2010

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