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...SAO PAULO Even though the Asics Gel Kinsei ($373) costs more than most other sneakers in Brazil, its launch caused wait lists throughout the city...
...assuming his second term in office with a whopping 62% vote mandate. But look at some of the people he has to deal with in the country's congress: Fernando Collor de Melo, a former president impeached in 1992 on corruption charges; Paulo Maluf, a two-time Mayor of Sao Paulo convicted of fraud; and Clodovil, a camp television presenter and former stylist to the stars who, when asked to name some pet projects he would bring to the new parliament replied, "I have no projects." And this was after Brazilians voted out half of the former congress, which...
...times and the day before Christmas police arrested three men trying to force their way into my apartment - but even I was surprised by the scope and barbarity of the attacks. Rio is famous for its casual and carefree attitude to advance planning, and I'd always joked that Sao Paulo's bandits were better organized than their Rio counterparts. When drug gangs brought Sao Paulo, a city of 19 million that is Brazil's business and industrial capital, to a standstill in May with a four-day orgy of violence that left close to 200 people dead, I felt...
...SAO PAULO A hit at Sara J?ias, Van Cleef & Arpels' Moorish-inspired Vintage Alhambra necklace ($3,300) was launched in 1974 but still attracts young stars like Keira Knightley...
...helped Alckmin eat into Lula's lead and deny him the 50%-plus-one margin needed to claim outright victory in the first round of voting, which gave Alckmin 41.6% to Lula's 48.6%. But that may be as good as it will get for the former governor of Sao Paulo state. Even after he took the offensive in televised debates with stinging attacks on the endemic corruption inside Lula's government and its poor record on economic growth, Alckmin still trails Lula by a solid 20 points in most polls...