AUGUST
1999

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CONTENTS:

8
Passage:

Dom Hélder
says farewell
10
Media:

How Brazilians
survived the Apocalypse
11
COVER
STORY
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And now the affluent
Brazilian blacks
18
Politics:

The 100,000 march
goes to Brasília
20
Economy:

Truck drivers stop
their trucks and Brazil
22
Ideas:

Censorship is alive and
well in academia
24
Poetry:

Buzzing around
Mario Quintana
26
Short Story:

Five little gems
by Moacyr Scliar
In Portuguese
34
Travel:

The charming past and
rich present of Maranhão
38
Cuisine:

Feijoada and other
toothsome recipes
41
Impressions:

Life in the pleasure
lane in Rio
45
Music:

Didá, the sounds of
a social experiment
54
Special:

President Cardoso:
the real and the rule

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