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...with heaps of money thrown in. There, success does not merely require unbridled ambition, it requires a steady infusion of cash. Whether you are picking up a tab at the Red Line or Daedalus, forking over the cover at Axis and Avalon, arranging that intersession trip to Barcelona or Rio de Janeiro, or shelling out for the latest designer drug, the social world of Harvard children (with apologies to Robert Coles) costs a pretty penny to inhabit...
...despair. Despite technological progress and the benefits of the free market, here in Latin America unemployment, social injustice and organized crime are increasing. Druglords rule poor communities. The U.S. must pay serious attention to this troubling situation, or there will be Taliban-style organizations forming south of the Rio Grande. LUIZ FELIPE HADDAD Niteroi, Brazil...
...Saviola Sits It Out By ANDREW DOWNIE Rio de Janeiro Life can be hard for a teenager saddled with the nickname "El Conejo," the rabbit. But Javier Saviola has more serious problems at hand. The 19-year-old Argentine sensation is banging in goals aplenty for his Spanish club, Barcelona, in the world's best league, but he still can't find a place on the national side. Coach Marcelo Bielsa has an abundance of superb forwards to choose from (Gabriel Batistuta, Hernan Crespo, Claudio Lopez, Ariel Ortega, Kily Gonzales, Gustavo Lopez ... we could go on) and Saviola looks likely...
...Brazilian Back to the Future By ANDREW DOWNIE Brazil, too, may be counting on a repeat of history. The buzz in Rio de Janeiro is that Carlos Alberto Parreira is about to be recalled as coach, to replace the unimaginative Luis Felipe Scolari. After a scratchy qualification campaign under four different coaches, the four-time winners need to start looking like champions again, and who better to do that than the man who twice led them to glory, as player and as coach. Parreira knows exactly how hard it can be to please his football-mad countrymen: he once said...
...Urinetown’s score is consistently varied and rewarding, its book tends to be more hit-and-miss. Attempts at sending up old-fashioned comedy frequently fall flat. Running gags involving faxing, copying and running away to Rio succeed at recalling pre-World War II film and theater, but though they seem to attempt to derive their humor from the fact that the references aren’t as funny as the characters think they are, the result remains unfunny for the audience. Two characters related to the company, the greedy right-hand man and the corrupt politician...