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Books: John Updike imagines the Tristan myth in Brazil...
...BRAZIL. The continent's largest economy is consumed by hyperinflation and a huge congressional corruption scandal that has paralyzed the government and renewed rumors of a possible military coup...
...duranta tree from Brazil, which in bloom has "lots of little purple flowers...
Ratzinger's behind-the-scenes interrogations and investigations exert a subtle chill on Catholic intellectual life. His actions imposed an 11-month "penitential silence" on Leonardo Boff, Brazil's exponent of liberation theology (who has since quit the priesthood); they also led to the removal of Charles Curran, a proponent of birth control, from teaching theology at the Catholic University of America. (He is now at Southern Methodist University.) In fact, Ratzinger sometimes seems to be turning his back -- literally -- on modern notions. The pre-Vatican II church, he said last April, was theologically correct in having priests "oriented toward...
...Miami's grand scheme for the future. The trade sector is, to a large extent, based on glorified mom-and-pop businesses offering low-paying service jobs. "Miami is not the capital of Latin America," German Consul General Klaus Sommer says dismissively. "The Germans have billions in Argentina, Brazil, Chile. You don't need an agent sitting in Miami...