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Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano, left, listens to comments at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Jan. 29, 2005. Jose Saramago of Portugal and 1998 Nobel Prize in literature, is at right. The eclectic gathering of pacifists, environmentalists, libertarians, trade unionists and anti-establishment militants was timed to coincide with its nemesis, the World Economic Forum held thousands of kilometers (miles) away in the swank Swiss mountain resort of Davos. (Douglas Engle/Australfoto)

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Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano, left, listens to comments at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Jan. 29, 2005. Jose Saramago of Portugal and 1998 Nobel Prize in literature, is at right. The eclectic gathering of pacifists, environmentalists, libertarians, trade unionists and anti-establishment militants was timed to coincide with its nemesis, the World Economic Forum held thousands of kilometers (miles) away in the swank Swiss mountain resort of Davos. (Douglas Engle/Australfoto)

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