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...streets. More than 400,000 antiwar protesters last Wednesday jammed switchboards in the White House and Congress with a flood of phone calls, faxes and e-mails in what was billed as the first nationwide virtual demonstration. On the same day in Rio de Janeiro, according to Brazilian authorities, a jailed Brazilian druglord known as Fernandinho Beira-Mar coordinated a round of riots, bombs and bus burnings from his prison cell using a smuggled cell phone...
Seen proudly sporting bruises around campus, members of the newly revamped Capoeira Club are more than willing to withstand a few sore muscles in mastering a 400-year-old Brazilian martial art. “You do get kicked a couple of times,” says Elena M. Krieger ’06, one of the club’s two leaders, “yet it’s mostly harmless...
...strong in order to execute most of the moves.” To complement the athleticism, Capoeira is also a form of artistic expression and is set to music for performance. “Two people play each other at a time, while the others encircle them, singing Brazilian children’s songs,” says Krieger...
...Square for the arch wonders of Danielle. Teresa at Le Pli is also a favorite. While some expressed doubt about Ricki’s and Sasha’s, one veteran insists that Lena at Sasha’s has the “best, fastest and most painless Brazilian wax ever.” FM will take her word...
...Braxton-Brooks, a special concentrator in Performance Studies and Performing Texts, her staged thesis let her combine her artistic interests as a dancer with her questions about “fantasized notions” of Brazilian culture in the Western mind...