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...prospects, the poor keep arriving in the city of 18 million. As joblessness, crime and violence continue to grow, the rich are beginning to take flight. Mariana Montoro Jens, who works for an antiviolence ngo called Instituto Sou da Paz, says: "People think of this as the country of soccer and samba. But this is a violent country." The rise of the pcc is one sign of that. Says Ferréz: "In a place where the state doesn't care and the police are your enemy, this is what happens." Drauzio Varella says that the only way to restore...
...needed to show the falsity of that was to have somebody who really was in touch with the guy on the corner, who really understood the lives of people who work in factories, people who struggle, people who live middle-class lives built around their children, Saturday or Sunday soccer, and Friday-night football...
...changes, the Netroots won't be kingmakers. The fact is, day-to-day campaigning in 2006 is not very different from how it was in 1996: candidates call a few very rich people to ask them to give money so the campaign can run ads on television and hope soccer moms catch them between cooking dinner and driving to practice. If the Democrats win in the fall elections, the roots of that victory will...
...emerged into Al-Adhamiya's main marketplace, a large treeless square that was host to what looked like a block party in full swing. Old men, rocking back and forth on tiny stools, shuffled dominoes. Boys volleyed soccer balls. Women veiled in black fed their children from stalls of roasted chickens and shashlik. No one seemed to notice the foreign invaders passing...
...more attention. No articles are written about players staying out of trouble, and players are not lauded for simply behaving themselves. And, as Murphy admitted, the atmosphere of college athletics breeds far more attention.“With the Duke thing or the Northwestern women’s soccer team,” he said, referencing another highly publicized incident from the spring, “I think right now athletes have to understand they are going to be held to a higher standard than regular students. We constantly educate our kids [that] you’re not representing yourself...