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...connoisseur of foreign soft drinks, which are quite amazing in their variety and distinctiveness. Limao Brahma is a good one, a clear, lime-flavored soda with a cool, smooth flavor. Antarctica Guarana Champagne - made in Brazil, according to the can - has become another favorite of mine; it's clear gold in color, and has the refined sweet taste of a cola champagne coupled with the strong suggestion of tropical fruitiness...
...stage is open to an enormous field which is about half full of people. The crowd is mostly young - teens, twentysomethings and thirtysomethings - though the first day is unofficially billed as oldies night. Many of the attendees have dyed their hair in patches of green, blue and gold, which I remember are the colors of the Brazilian flag. I file this away on my list of the acts of unassisted cultural decryption that I've been able to accomplish so far (the only other thing on that list is my translation of the word "tenda"). A few minutes later...
...Actually, the concert grounds were rife with corporate squads, wandering around in packs, all dressed in uniforms specific to their product team. The AOL squad was dressed in gold T-shirts, the Nextel girls and boys in purple, the Direct TV folks in purple outfits that looked like they had collectively won the Tour de France with the Artist currently known as Prince as their major sponsor. I read once that the British navy in the 18th century used to send bands of men onshore - "press gangs," they called them - looking to force able-bodied seamen to join their ranks...
...foundation of the prosperity of the last eight years. Balanced budgets, a mainstay of Republicanism in the '50s, were one of Newt Gingrich's rallying cries in the '90s, and are the one thing everybody can agree on in 2001, especially with those city-of-gold surpluses shimmering on the horizon...
There I go dreaming again. . . . Potshots It was a magnificent display of sportsmanship for Yale to honor one of the true legends of amateur athletics in Billy Cleary. Really, the man has done it all--great player, gold medal winner, NCAA Champion coach. What would have been especially nice, though, would be to have his reaction to all the festivities. Cleary, however, refuses to talk to reporters from The Harvard Crimson. It's a shame, too, because, from all accounts, he is otherwise a genuinely good man, but one with a remarkable grudge against this paper...