Word: brazil
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Semester at Sea was my introduction to the world. This past spring voyage, we traveled from the Bahamas to Venezuela, Brazil, South Africa, Kenya, India, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan...
...addition to having professors from Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Stanford, Syracuse, Princeton, the London School of Economics, Oxford, Georgetown and the University of Pittsburgh, among other well-respected universities, Semester at Sea hosts several interport lectures. On my voyage last spring, our lectures were Bishop Tutu (Brazil to South Africa); Liberty Mhlanga (Cape Town to Kenya); Margaret Pusch (Nassau to Brazil) and Maria Ruiz-Merroth (Nassau to Venezuala). They spoke on everything from the farming practices of the Massai in Kenya to third world debt problems, the Gulf of Columbia-Venezuela conflict, apartheid (or Apart-Hate as Desmond Tutu prefers...
...Brazil, with 240,000 Indians in a population of 146 million, the government last year set aside 37,450 sq. mi. for 9,500 Yanomami, a fragile Amazon tribe whose way of life had been virtually destroyed by migratory gold miners. In the past 2 1/2 years, Brasilia has created 131 reserves covering 120,000 sq. mi. in 19 states that are home to 100,000 Indians. It is a beginning -- but it does not come close to ending the threat to the tribes, whose lands are frequently invaded by aggressive miners and ranchers and who receive little help from...
Brattle Theatre. 40 Brattle St., Harvard Square. 876-6837. Boston area Premier of Herzog's Echoes from a Somber Empire at 3:30, 5:30 and 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 5. Boston area premier of the European cut of Brazil at 9:30 on Thursday, Nov. 5 Boston area premier of Swoon at 4, 6, 8 and 10 p.m. with Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2 p.m. from Friday, Nov. 6 until Thursday...
That reach may, in some countries, extend too far. In Brazil, where the more laid-back, samba-tinged rap of Rio is dueling for prominence with the harder- edged street anthems of Sao Paulo, hypercharged groups like Sons of the Ghetto decry the injustices of the social system. The most popular song is the work of an 18-year-old middle-class kid who calls himself Gabriel the Thinker. Only days after its release, the piece was the most requested number on a local radio station. Last month the government forced the station to take it off the air. Gabriel...