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What started out as work dinners quickly evolved into a serious relationship. While Nippita spent the summer of 1999 in Brazil, Wagner arranged for her to spend a few days in Rio de Janeiro with a friend of his, and surprised her by flying down for a visit...
...life in 2000 for his role in a match-fixing scandal, in a plane crash; in Western Cape province. Cronje admitted accepting more than $100,000 from gamblers but denied ever throwing a match. DIED. MARIO LAGO, 90, Brazilian actor, samba composer, poet and political dissident; in Rio de Janeiro. Lago appeared in more than 30 telenovelas (Brazilian soap operas) and 20 films, and wrote more than 200 songs. A leftist, Lago was repeatedly imprisoned during Brazil's military regime from 1964 to 1986. CLOSED. PUNCH, the English-language satirical magazine first published in 1841; in London. Punch was shut...
...Janeiro has a reputation for being a libertine playground, but the city's tourist board has been acting a bit uptight. Riotur has threatened to sue the Fox network over an episode of The Simpsons in which the family visits Brazil. While there, Bart is ingested by a boa constrictor, Homer is kidnapped by a taxi driver and monkeys roam the streets. Perhaps most insulting, the show suggests Brazil is responsible for the Macarena (the dance comes from Spain). Riotur spent $18 million promoting the city last year and doesn't want it to go to waste, though bringing attention...
BRAZIL Killer Epidemic An outbreak of dengue fever has killed at least 18 people as it laid low one in 10 workers in Rio de Janeiro state. The mosquito-borne disease, which causes such pain that it is also known as breakbone fever, first appeared in January and is spreading at a rate of 1,600 cases a day. Thousands of soldiers have been called in to spray insecticide and clear stagnant water where the mosquitoes breed...
...money thrown in. There, success does not merely require unbridled ambition, it requires a steady infusion of cash. Whether you are picking up a tab at the Red Line or Daedalus, forking over the cover at Axis and Avalon, arranging that intersession trip to Barcelona or Rio de Janeiro, or shelling out for the latest designer drug, the social world of Harvard children (with apologies to Robert Coles) costs a pretty penny to inhabit...