Along with that of co-host Meredith Vieira and Matt Lauer, Costa's commentary of the 2012 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremonies has come under fierce criticism, with Costas being described as making " a series of jingoistic remarks, including a joke about Idi Amin when Uganda's team appeared " and the combined commentary as being " ignorant " and " banal ".

In his time at Arsenal, Vieira appeared in the PFA Team of the Year six years in a row from the 1998 – 99 season up to the 2003 – 04 season.

A badly edited edition of the works of Vieira in 27 volumes appeared in Lisbon, 1854 – 58.

In May 2010, Vieira was nominated Goodwill Ambassador of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

On 6 January 2010, Vieira unusually played as starter against Chievo, which was his eighth league start of the season.

Also, in February 2010, Cat filled in for a holidaying Meredith Vieira as host on the morning TV show Today.

* Renan Vieira ( 2010 )

* Brigadier General Floriano Peixoto Vieira Neto, Brazil, April, 2009 to March 2010.

From 1924 to 1936, when Thalberg died at age 37, " almost every film bore Thalberg's imprint ," notes Mark Vieira.

Zona J: is a Portuguese drama / romance film directed by Leonel Vieira in 1998, starring Sílvia Alberto, Ana Bustorff, Núria Madruga, Milton Spencer and Félix Fontoura.

In 2000 Oliveira made the film Word and Utopia ( Palavra e Utopia ), a biography of the Portuguese Jesuit priest Padre António Vieira based upon letters and sermons that the priest wrote between 1626 and 1695.

Leonel Vieira ( born 1969 ) is a Portuguese film director.

Since Ely, pageant hosts have included Regis Philbin and Kathie Lee Gifford, Gary Collins and Mary Ann Mobley ( herself a former Miss America ), Meredith Vieira, Boomer Esiason, Wayne Brady, Mario Lopez and James Denton.

* Vieira made an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show as herself in a scene where she wanted to be the 300, 000th audience member of the show, but instead was the 300, 001st.

Other projects of Deeley's include presenting the third season of Soundtrack to My Life, playing herself as host of Peter Kay's Peter Kay's Britain's Got the Pop Factor ... and Possibly a New Celebrity Jesus Christ Soapstar Superstar Strictly on Ice, guest hosting the United States syndicated version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire ( for Meredith Vieira ), and appearing on BBC America's broadcast of Gordon Ramsay's F Word where she was served up to hungry customers.

This scene was highly controversial, especially when it was featured in a billboard campaign in Los Angeles, when Brazilian multimedia designer Sara Vieira spoke out against it.

At home against Middlesbrough on 22 August 2004, Bergkamp acted as captain for the injured Vieira in a match where Arsenal came back from 1 – 3 down to win 5 – 3 and equal Nottingham Forest's record of 42 league matches undefeated.

* 1652-Jesuit Antonio Vieira returns to Brazil as a missionary where he will champion the cause of exploited indigenous peoples until being expelled by Portuguese colonists

Vieira first played for AS Cannes, where he made his debut at the age of 17 and captained the team aged just 19.

Waldo Vieira currently lives in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, where he has founded the CEAEC-in Portuguese, Center of Higher Studies of the Consciousness-where he resides and works daily on the Encyclopedia of Conscienciology, to be completed in the year 2011.

It was coach Arrigo Sacchi who saw Rijkaard as playing a pivotal role at Milan and transformed the central defender into a world class holding midfielder, where the Dutchman's aggressive and firm style would go on to influence the likes of Patrick Vieira to replicate in future years.

The Cimetière des Rois ( French: Cemetery of Kings ) or Cimetière de Plainpalais, is a cemetery in Geneva, Switzerland, where John Calvin, the Protestant reformer, Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine author, Sérgio Vieira de Mello, the former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and Jean Piaget, the noted child psychologist are buried.

Benfica president Luís Filipe Vieira, where she made serious allegations against Pinto da Costa ( including match fixing, bribing referees with prostitutes, and ordering the beating of Gondomar councilman Ricardo Bexiga ).

Only some 20 islands islands are populated year-round, namely Bubaque which is where the Bissagos administrative capital is situated and is the most populated island, Bolama, Carache, Caravela, Enu, Formosa, Galinhas, João Vieira, Maio, Meneque, Orango, Orangozinho, Ponta, Roxa, Rubane, Soga, Unhacomo, Uno, and Uracane.

Vieira and fellow correspondent Steve Kroft transferred to 60 Minutes, where Kroft currently remains.

During the Grand Embassy of Peter the Great to Europe ( 1697 ), the tsar was allowed by the Dutch sailors to command a ship, where Vieira served as a cabin-boy.

After 10 days of inquest, Vieira was stripped of his estates and titles and exiled to Yakutia, where he would live in utter oblivion for 4 years.

As part of her contract with Millionaire, Vieira agreed not to appear on Today during hours that would conflict with the airing of the game show on competing stations.

* 2003 – A car-bomb attack on United Nations headquarters in Iraq kills the agency's top envoy Sérgio Vieira de Mello and 21 other employees.

On April 9, it was announced that President João Bernardo Vieira had rejected the choice of Kabi, but the coalition said that they maintained him as their choice and later on the same day, Vieira appointed Kabi as the new prime minister.

* Patricia Vieira & Michael Marder, editors ( 2011 ) Existential Utopia: New Perspectives on Utopian Thought ( London & New York: Continuum ) ISBN 1-4411-6921-0

* The President of Guinea-Bissau, João Bernardo Vieira, was assassinated on March 2, 2009, during an armed attack on his residence in Bissau.

The U. S. Embassy suspended operations in Bissau on June 14, 1998, in the midst of violent conflict between forces loyal to then-President Vieira and the military-led junta.

Fado historian and scholar Rui Vieira Nery states that " the only reliable information on the history of Fado was orally transmitted and goes back to the 1820s and 1830s at best.

Joey D. Vieira, also known as Donald Keeler, is best remembered for portraying chubby, beanie-wearing farm boy, Sylvester " Porky " Brockway on TV's Lassie ( retitled Jeff's Collie in syndicated reruns and on DVD ) from 1954-57.

Osgood would remain on the job until June 1992, paired with Victoria Corderi ( April 1990 – August 1991 ), Giselle Fernández ( to February 1992 ), and Meredith Vieira ( for the remainder of Osgood's term ).

Vieira ( center, on podium ) holding the 2003 – 04 Premiership trophy after Arsenal's unbeaten season.

Vieira would go on to win UEFA Euro 2000 with France, as well as a second Double with Arsenal in 2002.

Arsenal lost the final to Turkish side Galatasaray on penalties, with Vieira missing his.

In August 2008, Vieira was ranked the fifth-greatest Arsenal player of all-time in a fan poll conducted on the club's official website.

In a twist of fate, Vieira returned to Highbury on 28 March 2006 to play against Arsenal in the quarter-finals of the UEFA Champions League.

Vieira received a yellow card in the first leg match at Highbury and was suspended for the return leg on 5 April 2006.

After press speculation linking him to various clubs, including a move back to Arsenal, on 2 August 2006, Vieira officially signed a four-year deal for Internazionale in a deal to be worth € 9. 5 million, less than half of the € 20 million fee Juventus had paid just 12 months prior.

Seaman went on to captain the team during the finals in the absence of injured Patrick Vieira and keep another clean sheet at the Millennium Stadium as they defeated Southampton 1 – 0.

Waldo Vieira, a physician and dentist, claims to have had his first OBE at the age of 9 and has gone on to write numerous articles and over 20 books, including Projectiology.

Vieira de Mello was born in Rio de Janeiro to the diplomat Arnaldo Vieira de Mello and his wife Gilda, on 15 March 1948.

Fiona Watson ( 1968-19 August 2003 ) was a Scottish political affairs officer working in Vieira de Mello's office who was killed along with other members of UN staff in the Canal Hotel bombing in Iraq, on the afternoon of 19 August 2003.

At the time of her death she was political affairs officer on the staff of the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General to Iraq Sergio Vieira de Mello.