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...founder in 1998 of the outlawed China Democracy Party; after a stroke in a reform camp in the eastern province of Zhejiang. Last year the Chinese government sentenced Nie to one year of labor reform for publishing an open letter demanding the release of detained dissidents. DIED. ROBERTO DE OLIVEIRA CAMPOS, 84, one of Brazil's most prominent intellectual and political figures; in S?o Paulo. A staunch supporter of free markets, Campos was a principal architect of the 1970s' "Brazilian Miracle," a program that briefly turned his country's economy, which depends mainly on exports of coffee, sugar and cocoa...
Family means a lot in Brazil. It certainly means a lot in Brazilian music. Several of the other acts on De Castro's Trama label are second-generation stars. Berklee College of Music graduate Jairzinho Oliveira and smooth-voiced singer Luciana Mello are children of Jair Rodrigues, an acclaimed samba vocalist. Bebel Gilberto (daughter of Joao) and Moreno Veloso (son of Caetano) have released widely acclaimed CDs on other labels. Daniel Jobim, grandson of Tom, appeared on Moreno's CD. While pop-music progeny sometimes face ridicule and suspicion in the U.S., they are often embraced in Brazil. Jakob Dylan...
...nation. Junior Lara Naqushbandi took the first point, winning 6-3, 6-4 at fourth singles. Ajilore quickly followed, also defeating her opponent 6-3, 6-4. Ghazal gave Harvard a 3-0 edge in the match with a straight set, 7-5, 7-5 victory over Claudia Oliveira, setting up Bajin to capture the winning point. After losing the first set to huge-serving Amelie Detriviere, 4-6, Bajin recovered to take the second set 6-2. In the third, Bajin pulled off her best Andre Agassi imitation, befuddling Detriviere with great service returns and strong groundstroke play...
...June 1998, homicide Inspector Jose Afonso Coelho of the Lisbon police is notified that the nude body of a teenage girl has been found on a nearby beach. Along with Carlos Pinto, his new partner, Coelho begins to investigate and quickly uncovers some interesting complications. The victim, Catarina Sousa Oliveira, was the daughter of a powerful, well-connected local attorney and his second wife and had already, despite her tender years, demonstrated a precocious fondness for sex and drugs. In fact, she had recently seduced her mother's lover and arranged the tryst so that the mother could catch them...
...converge. Inspector Coelho, of course, knows nothing about Klaus Felsen or his murky role on behalf of the Nazis, so the reader is always several steps ahead of the fictional detective. But they are only baby steps, because the connection between Felsen's story and the murder of Catarina Oliveira remains tantalizingly unclear for much of the novel...