As her reputation grew, Rousseff landed state-level positions as Secretary of the Treasury and Secretary of Energy before serving as chief of staff for President Lula da Silva, whom she succeeded.

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As the first female Chief of Staff under reformist President Lula da Silva, appointed in 2005, she was widely expected to be his successor to continue the Workers Party's economic policies set in motion during his term.

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Her career took off while she was in former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's PT Worker's Party, who appointed her as environment minister in 2003.

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But that is what Patricia de Lille of South Africa's Independent Democrats (ID) received at a recent meeting of the Democratic Alliance (DA), the country's main opposition party, when she indicated that the two parties were close to clinching a formal agreement to co-operate at next year's municipal elections.

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An early da Vinci work, it depicts the Angel Gabriel telling the Virgin Mary she is pregnant.

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She served as the chief of staff to Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

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She alleges that the ex-judge fatally shot the local DA and two others he apparently blamed for the loss of his job.

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Brazilian model Mariana Bridi da Costa was a healthy 20-year-old when doctors told her she had a urinary tract infection, her family says.

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"Leonardo Da Vinci did not specialize as an artist or a scientist but produced masterpieces in both domains, " she explained.

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