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...Brazil so even slums are targeted when polling day approaches. Baiano has taken no money for his electioneering, and explains "this man isn't the best candidate, but I owe him a favor." It's dangerous to default in Brazil's largest city - and in its prisons. Drauzio Varella, a jail doctor, regularly examined the corpses of inmates stabbed for failing to repay debts. In 1995, a body was brought for his inspection. "He was lying face upward," says Drauzio Varella, "and when I turned him over, his head dangled. He had been almost decapitated. The guard told me this...
...despite parental opposition, Peabody School Principal Ellen Varella said she would accept the plan if it were passed, though the merged school “is not going to be the Peabody School...
...concept of taking a successful school and merging it is a very bitter pill to swallow,” said Peabody School Principal Ellen Varella...
Peabody hosts an English as a Second Language Center and has facilities for special needs students, as well. "I think choice has really added for every school," Varella says. "There are so many children from different backgrounds...it probably wouldn't occur in a neighborhood school...
...Varella asks, "How can you judge [socioeconomic status]? If you base it on the lunch, I would say that 30 percent of the children that go here are economically needy...