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...always been epic in scope. In Beloved, Morrison told the story of Sethe, a woman who murdered her own child rather than see her sold into slavery. Early on in A Mercy, we watch a mother do the opposite--she puts her daughter Florens up for sale: "Please, Senhor. Not me. Take her. Take my daughter." It's a less bloody moment, but in its way it's no less chilling. A Mercy is that daughter's tale...
...prices and wages spiral out of control, business strategy is virtually paralyzed. Says Thomas Michael Lanz, director of a Sao Paulo electronic-tools company: "We are all lost. We can't plan, we can't set prices, we can't decide whether to hire or fire." Senhor, the widely read Sao Paulo-based business magazine, put an upside-down map of Brazil on its cover last week with the headline GENERAL CONFUSION...
...small, cattle-raising town of Monsenhor Tabosa, 1,000 people from the countryside recently sacked a school commissary when the local mayor began distributing rice, beans and flour. Under similar circumstances, 400 angry villagers stormed the local mayor's office in the remote western town of Senhor Pompeu. So far the Brazilian government has spent $800 million to build dams, aqueducts and wells, while trying to create jobs for 600,000 victims. It has tested new methods of planting and new crops. But until the rains return, little that is constructive can be done. Sums up one resident...
...botched his last getaway. He apparently left Lisbon in a hurry because he sensed that the police were on his trail. But under a 60-year-old treaty with the U.S., Portugal-which abolished the death penalty in 1867-will not extradite any criminal sought on a capital charge. Senhor Ray could have stayed there indefinitely...
...industry pretended that the filet mignon on their plates was the only beef they had with the government. "An unforgettable night," proclaimed the president of the National Confederation of Industries. "A his toric moment," added the president of the National Confederation of Agriculture. "The moral attributes of Your Excellency, Senhor Marshal," said the president of the National Confederation of Industrial Workers, "make of Your Excellency the unquestioned interpreter of the aspirations of the workers, who jubilantly exalt the irreversible resolution of Your Excellency to bring peace to the Brazilian family...