Word: paulo
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...photographer Anthony Suau. Assigned to shoot the pictures for this week's cover story on the many problems and opportunities to be found in megacities around the globe, Suau began in Kinshasa, Zaire, and wound up in New York City's South Bronx, by way of Mexico City; Sao Paulo and Curitiba, Brazil; and Tokyo. "I was shotgunning from one city to the next," recalls the 36-year- old native of Peoria, Illinois. "One street in Tokyo just blended into the next one in New York City...
First reports were that only eight prisoners had been killed Oct. 2 when police stormed Carandiru penitentiary in Brazil's commercial capital of Sao Paulo to quell a riot. But then surviving prisoners began telling investigators and grieving relatives tales of a savage slaughter: prisoners allegedly machine-gunned as they ran for their cells, others gunned down inside their cells by police shouting "Your time has come." Some of the injured were reportedly dragged to a prison workshop, where they were torn apart by attack dogs. Row on row of naked prisoners' bodies were lined up in a local morgue...
That reach may, in some countries, extend too far. In Brazil, where the more laid-back, samba-tinged rap of Rio is dueling for prominence with the harder- edged street anthems of Sao Paulo, hypercharged groups like Sons of the Ghetto decry the injustices of the social system. The most popular song is the work of an 18-year-old middle-class kid who calls himself Gabriel the Thinker. Only days after its release, the piece was the most requested number on a local radio station. Last month the government forced the station to take it off the air. Gabriel...
...hands him a cigarette,which he sniffs deeply. "Mmmmmmm. That smellswonderfull. Thank you very much."Thomas tucks the gift behind his ear-another day, another accessory--and flutters off to meet Paulo at The Coffee Connection...
...producing a film version of Zora's Kitchen, a mystery-thriller-farce-revenge tragedy written by his friend Orion Ross '92. He also plans to writea book about Lucille Hart, a wonderful woman from rural Oregon who disguised herself as a man for 40 years. And then there's Paulo...