Word: pauloã
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Cresting the hill on Avenida dos Bandeirantes that leads to São Paulo??s Congonhas Airport, I saw the dense black smoke, blown sideways by the wind. When I ascended the driveway, I was confused. At that moment, the burning warehouse of Transportes Aéreos Marília (TAM), Brazil’s largest airline, looked like any of a dozen building fires I had seen on the evening news. But the severed tail of a TAM Airbus 320 protruded from the warehouse, signaling that the 176 people on board were surely dead...
...same block: in some parts of the skyline, chic apartment buildings seem to ascend out of seas of squat favelas, the urban slums that dot the urban landscape. Though oft-publicized violent crime is prevalent in the periphery, it is far less common in the center. São Paulo??s Liberdade neighborhood boasts the biggest community of ethnic Japanese outside of Japan. São Paulo just hosted the biggest gay pride parade in history, but it is not recommended that gay men walk alone at night. The subway is extremely clean and efficient. But it does...
...directions can result in a 30-minute conversation. Working for the newspaper Folha de São Paulo, I have learned that everyone wants to talk to a reporter. The subject of the conversation, however, can vary. I received a guided tour of the University of São Paulo??s equivalent of University Hall—invaded by students and barred to the press—after a fifteen-minute argument with a socialist student named Duarte who tried to convince me of the democracy of Hugo Chavez’s closing of Radio Caracas Televisi?...
...million gift from Jorge Paulo Lemann ’61 will support the office in São Paulo??“the informal capital of the country”—and fund scholarships for both Harvard students studying in Brazil and Brazilian students coming to Harvard, Coatsworth said. Currently only five students from Brazil are enrolled in the College, according to the Harvard International Office...
Simon W. Vozick-Levinson Associate Editorial Chair President Summers will make the most of his “Spring Break: Sao Paulo?? by winning MTV’s “Say What Karaoke” with a lip-synched version of Mario Winans’ “I Don’t Wanna Know.” Thanks a lot, globalization...
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