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...before Christmas police arrested three men trying to force their way into my apartment - but even I was surprised by the scope and barbarity of the attacks. Rio is famous for its casual and carefree attitude to advance planning, and I'd always joked that Sao Paulo's bandits were better organized than their Rio counterparts. When drug gangs brought Sao Paulo, a city of 19 million that is Brazil's business and industrial capital, to a standstill in May with a four-day orgy of violence that left close to 200 people dead, I felt vindicated...
...been gripping their metallic Paddington bags in anticipation of who would be her successor. (When Philo left, her design team soldiered on for two seasons under the direction of head designer Yvan Mispelaere, who is leaving to join Gucci.) The Chloé reins now go to Swedish-born, Milan-based Paulo Melim Andersson, 34, formerly design director of the popular Italian label Marni. Melim Andersson has big shoes to fill: under Philo's direction, Chloé became one of fashion's hottest brands, spurring mile-long wait lists for such must-have items as the Betty handbag and chunky stack-heel boots...
...PAULO A hit at Sara J?ias, Van Cleef & Arpels' Moorish-inspired Vintage Alhambra necklace ($3,300) was launched in 1974 but still attracts young stars like Keira Knightley...
...Alckmin eat into Lula's lead and deny him the 50%-plus-one margin needed to claim outright victory in the first round of voting, which gave Alckmin 41.6% to Lula's 48.6%. But that may be as good as it will get for the former governor of Sao Paulo state. Even after he took the offensive in televised debates with stinging attacks on the endemic corruption inside Lula's government and its poor record on economic growth, Alckmin still trails Lula by a solid 20 points in most polls...
...democracy and ultimately Western civilization? If we ever come to a "clash of civilizations," as some historians have suggested is possible, or to the religious war imagined by others, we will owe that exclusively to the hypocrisy and criminal behavior of the U.S. government. Roberto Hollnagel São Paulo...