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They have nicknames like cartoon characters. But Marcola, Starfruit and Macarroni - the men Brazilian authorities believe ordered the most shocking weekend of violence in Sao Paulo's history - are no laughing matter. They're the mafiosi who run the First Command of the Capital (PCC), Sao Paulo's predominant organized crime faction. And now they've proved they are shrewd, ruthless and powerful enough to bring a place like Sao Paulo, Brazil's most important state and South America's largest city, to its knees with just a phone call from their jail cells. Just as important, the five...
...through Sept. 4, invites visitors to consider the head as the birthplace of thought, emotion and identity. Dominating the exhibit foyer is a giant sculpture, Cosmos (2001), by contemporary French artist Boris Achour. Made of dyed resin, the cartoonish noggin with protruding nose rotates in space while humming a Brazilian lambada; the sound evokes an artist contentedly at work and fills the lively, labyrinthine exhibit with creative energy. Other artists prefer to turn their heads, well, on their heads. S?bastien Leclerc's 17th century engravings representing a range of emotions face off with an interactive portion of the exhibit...
...Providing security is currently mostly the preserve of some 9,000 U.N. peacekeepers under Brazilian command, on whom Préval will depend as long as the situation demands it. He plans to formally abolish the Haitian military, unofficially defunct since President Aristide dissolved it in 1995, although one of the greatest threats to Haiti's stability since then has come from the disgruntled former soldiers who eventually overthrew Aristide's government two years...
...expletive-of-choice way. Those are the only possible human reactions to viewing Ping Pong, the underground Nike soccer ad that has dribbled around the Web faster than Pelé in his prime. In the spot, Ronaldinho, a Brazilian considered the world's best soccer player, laces up his new Nike cleats, the Swoosh as golden as his game, and then, from the top of the 18-yd. box, fires a soccer ball off the 4-in. crossbar. Before the ball touches the ground, he corrals the rebound on his chest, juggles the ball with his feet and repeats the feat...
...have to be a leading brand in the world's most popular game," says Remlinger. And of course, the company wanted to crush a stumbling Adidas--which had lost $100 million in 1992--for good. By 1997, in true Nike fashion, the company signed an iconic endorser--the Brazilian national team, fresh off its '94 World Cup victory--to a 10-year, $200 million contract. "Football is dance," says Remlinger. "And Brazil dances magnificently...