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...Paris during the '80s were the result of a French right-wing conspiracy to shake up the Socialist government? The French would have called it a ridiculous fantasy. As a French citizen, I feel ashamed that such lunatic propositions are taken seriously in France. THIERRY COURTES DE CARVALHO Rio de Janeiro...
What started out as work dinners quickly evolved into a serious relationship. While Nippita spent the summer of 1999 in Brazil, Wagner arranged for her to spend a few days in Rio de Janeiro with a friend of his, and surprised her by flying down for a visit...
...game for life in 2000 for his role in a match-fixing scandal, in a plane crash; in Western Cape province. Cronje admitted accepting more than $100,000 from gamblers but denied ever throwing a match. DIED. MARIO LAGO, 90, Brazilian actor, samba composer, poet and political dissident; in Rio de Janeiro. Lago appeared in more than 30 telenovelas (Brazilian soap operas) and 20 films, and wrote more than 200 songs. A leftist, Lago was repeatedly imprisoned during Brazil's military regime from 1964 to 1986. CLOSED. PUNCH, the English-language satirical magazine first published in 1841; in London. Punch...
...capitalism, Third World-style. If films weren't overtly political, they were insistently social. Some of the strongest works examined the working-class, the out-of-work, the criminally forlorn. The Brazilian City of God, directed by Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund, is a ferocious fresco of Rio slum kids who grow up to be vicious gangsters, if they don't die first. The movie's style is as hyper as the coked-up kids, but City of God manages to hold dozens of horrifying stories in some kind of coherence with its unflinching powers of observation. Another...
Since then I have been on many missions and seen many atrocities, all of which have affected me deeply. One of these is the plight of street children, who are exploited and reduced to appalling living standards. On my way to the World Summit on the Environment in Rio in 1992, I stopped in northern Brazil, where I met an 11-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl, both prostitutes. The girl had been raped. Whatever she earned on the streets she gave to her mother. I asked her whether she kept any money for herself...