Cardoso Returns to School   Strengthening his country’s ties to Stanford, Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso announced the endowment of a chair in Brazilian studies during a campus speech in March. A distinguished scholar of Brazil will visit the campus each year in a program funded by a $1 million gift from the New York branch of Safra National Bank of Brazil. Planning for the endowment began in 1994 when the Brazilian soccer team played in World Cup competition before enthusiastic crowds at Stanford Stadium. The university’s connections to Brazil reach back to its second president, John Casper Branner, and the most extensive U.S. research library collection on Brazil is located at Stanford. Cardoso, 64, was a visiting professor of political science at Stanford in 1977 when Brazil was run by a military dictatorship. He used his brief visit to the campus to praise “the art of politics” and defend elected politicians at a time when, he said, the public seems to hold them in low regard.

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