Word: squalidly
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...ideologies is also evident in Lula's cabinet. The President himself is a high school dropout, former metalworker and labor union leader, but his handpicked Central Bank president, Henrique Meirelles, is a Harvard graduate and former president of BankBoston. Welfare Minister Benedita da Silva rose from a squalid Rio de Janeiro favela, or slum, and was Brazil's first black female Senator, while Vice President José Alencar is a textile multimillionaire from the right-wing Liberal Party. Culture Minister Gilberto Gil, a pop music star, sports dreadlocks; Chief of Staff José Dirceu wears power suits and helped guide...
...Silva into the presidency next week. "The oligarchs in this country just want to demonize Chavez because he's giving our class the chance to participate in the economic and political life of Venezuela for once," said Yosmari Guevara, 29, a bakery owner in one of Caracas's most squalid slums. She notes that under Chavez's new bank program for micro-businesses, she has received low-interest credit for the first time...
...mama-san warned, all her clothes had better be off before the song ended. It was the most humiliating thing she had ever done. But a few days later, it got worse?a G.I. came in and paid to take her to one of Club Y's squalid VIP rooms, where sex costs $60 for 10 minutes and about $160 for half an hour. The mama-san gave her tissues and a condom, and hit her when she resisted. "Every time I am crying," says Danan. "The mama-san said, 'If you cry like that in the business, the business...
...list. But the most fascinating of them is surely Goya, which is all the more remarkable because he was so much alone, a man without colleagues or rivals in his culture. (He left Spain only twice--first when he was too young to matter, and then, fleeing from the squalid oppressiveness of Ferdinand VII's Bourbon regime, when he was almost too old to paint...
...place," warns army intelligence officer Captain Adrain Ade, an assault-rifle on his lap, as he scans passing villages for signs of rebel activity. His destination today is the distant village of Montasik, where another TNI platoon is camped out in a disused rice warehouse. Conditions are cramped and squalid, and the sense of siege is palpable. Platoon leader Captain Heri Sumitro says his men came under fire three weeks before, while patrolling the village. "We wanted to return fire but there were children in the way," he recalls. Contact with locals is minimal. "Most people want to talk...