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...failing to repay debts. In 1995, a body was brought for his inspection. "He was lying face upward," says Drauzio Varella, "and when I turned him over, his head dangled. He had been almost decapitated. The guard told me this was the mark of [a gang called] the Primeiro Comando da Capital (First Command of the Capital)." Drauzio Varella had never heard of the pcc, but, he says, "this was just the first of many corpses marked in this way." Life behind bars, as described by the doctor in his bestselling memoir turned movie, Estação Carandiru...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Grim Rules Of Gangland | 9/24/2006 | See Source »

...longest of the tall ships is the 375-ft. Russian bark Kruzenshtern, built in 1926 and, like most of the others, used as a training ship for naval cadets. The oldest is the American barkentine Gazela Primeiro, built in 1883 as a fishing vessel and now owned by the Philadelphia Maritime Museum. While most of the tall ships are being manned by male cadets, the smaller topsail schooner Sir Winston Churchill, owned by England's Sail Training Association, is carrying 42 female sail trainees. In their massed splendor, the ships suggest another Masefield image: "They mark our passage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Big 200th Bash | 7/5/1976 | See Source »

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