AUGUST
1999
For a larger coverCONTENTS:
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Passage:
Dom Hélder
says farewell10
Media:
How Brazilians
survived the Apocalypse11
COVER
STORY
And now the affluent
Brazilian blacks18
Politics:
The 100,000 march
goes to Brasília20
Economy:
Truck drivers stop
their trucks and Brazil22
Ideas:
Censorship is alive and
well in academia24
Poetry:
Buzzing around
Mario Quintana26
Short Story:
Five little gems
by Moacyr Scliar
In Portuguese34
Travel:
The charming past and
rich present of Maranhão38
Cuisine:
Feijoada and other
toothsome recipes41
Impressions:
Life in the pleasure
lane in Rio45
Music:
Didá, the sounds of
a social experiment54
Special:
President Cardoso:
the real and the rule
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