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...Rio's main railroad terminal, Dora, a sour old woman (uncompromisingly played by Fernanda Montenegro), scratches out a living writing letters for the illiterate. When a customer is killed in an accident, the dead woman's son (the winsomely suspicious Vinicius de Oliveira) becomes Dora's responsibility. The two set out across the Brazilian vastness to find the boy's errant father. Theirs is an odyssey of simple problems, simple emotional discoveries, a relationship full of knots that Salles permits to unwind in an unforced, unsentimental fashion. His imagery, like his storytelling, is clear, often unaffectedly lovely, and quietly, powerfully...
...Husband Skied into a Tree, so She Took His Job, Changed Her Hair and Tried to Impeach the President. This hypothetical song title may sound crass, but don't be surprised if it's the next hit for country star Brian Prout, of the band Diamond Rio, Congresswoman MARY BONO's new boyfriend. For a person with no prior political experience, Bono has generated some of D.C.'s juiciest headlines. Her latest jaw dropper comes from an interview she granted political rag TV Guide, in which she claims her late husband's addiction to prescription pain killers...
...what a deal it got. New Mexico and the community of Rio Rancho, just north of Albuquerque, won the bidding war by showering Intel with tax abatements and other assistance. Sandoval County, where the company erected its fab, authorized $2 billion in industrial revenue bonds in 1993 and an additional $8 billion in 1995--the largest local-government bond offering in history. The county held title to the land, building and equipment, which it leased back to Intel...
...TIME analysis of federal tax-return data raises questions. Let's look at two four-year periods, before and after Intel's massive Rio Rancho project...
Brazilians sardonically call their monstrous public bureaucracy O Trem da Alegria--the Joy Train. It is ridden by millions of officials like Cesar Almeida, mayor of a working-class town near Rio de Janeiro. The Globo TV network revealed last month that he has manipulated the system so cleverly that he earns $22,000 a month--twice the salary of the country's President--while teachers earn as little as $70 a month. Brazil was able to finance that kind of waste when foreign capital was pouring in. But now, with the global financial crisis sucking hundreds of millions...