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...Brazil - especially its second-largest city, Rio de Janeiro - has seen gang rampages before. But the mayhem in Sao Paulo set an astonishing new benchmark. It erupted last week after authorities transferred 756 gang-affiliated prisoners in an attempt to thwart what they believed would be a state-wide prison rebellion on the eve of Mother's Day, when family visits often provoke unrest. The PCC's reaction was swift. On Thursday night, bandits armed with grenades and machine guns attacked police stations and left five officers dead. Over the weekend they stepped up their attacks with a series...
...elements—vocal lines, guitar riffs, minimal percussion, and electronic textures—intertwine in complementary fashion. Molina sings with a beautiful, breathy tone, and her airy Spanish lyrics meld seamlessly with the soft musical underpinnings beneath. On the album’s opener, “Rio Seco,” Molina demonstrates her vocal abilities to great effect. She displays a wonderfully free sense of rhythm—sometimes drawing her vowels out languidly, and sometimes chopping her words short—creating a gentle sense of syncopation above the simple pulse and layered guitar. The album...
...captain Seamus McKiernan performed well. Freese tallied five kills on .500 hitting while McKiernan led the team with 15 kills and five blocks. But the story of the night was the play of two NJIT sophomores. Leonardo Paludo and Eduardo Welter—both hailing from Escola Barao de Rio Branco in Balneario Camboriu, Brazil—combined for 29 kills, 17 digs, and 7 aces to power the Highlanders past the Crimson. “Those two kids are quality,” Harvard coach Chris Ridolfi said. “They played with confidence, and we played like...
From the moment you set foot in the boomtowns of the Rio Grande Valley, you sense you are watching a gold rush, headlong and free spirited and corrupt and ingenious. Stand on a corner some morning in Laredo, Texas, and watch the first of 8,000 trucks a day hauling the global economy north and south, 18-wheelers full of bulldozer claws and baby cribs, all passing through a town that once didn't bother to pave the streets. Now it can't pour concrete fast enough. The banks are open 7 to 7, seven days a week; the pager...
...down the beach as in the old days at Daytona, on fine, hard-packed sand, hugging the Gulf of Mexico. It's a place to appreciate a pristine view--no condos, no concession stands, no concessions at all to anything except the fact that the border begins where the Rio Grande pours into the sea, and so it has to be guarded carefully...