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Daniela Mercury, 35, is already a superstar in Brazil as a champion of axe music (pronounced ah-shay). Her CD Sol da Liberdade throbs like blood in the arteries with the rhythms of her native Bahia, a region of Brazil with a heavy African influence...
...after a club sandwich and a swig of coconut milk by the pool, I book a tour of the city, all in the name of finding some sort of guiding theme for my travels. The tour guide, a fortyish woman named Yeda (which she pronounced "Ee-ill-da") stands at the front of the bus telling us about the city as it rushes by us. She repeats her tour guide observations in English, Portuguese and Spanish. Her English is pretty good (and I'm sure her Portuguese is first-rate too) but I seem to understand her Spanish spiel...
...reach Sugar Loaf and take a car suspended by cables to a lower peak, called Morro da Urca. It's a pretty exotic name, I decide, for a place that has the cheesy Kathleen Turner/Michael Douglas adventure comedy "Romancing the Stone" playing on the television in the bar next to the gift shop. We take another car to a second, higher peak. I find out that Portuguese explorers thought the peaks looked like the clay molds used to press sugar into conical lumps, so they called the place Sugar Loaf; plus they mispronounced the original Indian name. Whatever the Indian...
...governed is expressed by legislators who are voted into office for the purpose of writing new laws and changing old ones. If the legislators change or write those laws in ways we disagree with, then we get to get rid of the legislators and hire replacements. Ta-da! Democracy! The rule...
...direct line to his commander, Colonel Marcel Aviv. They spoke quickly, then Aviv listened in as Mor guided a helicopter into place above the target. At Mor's command, five missiles hammered into the refugee camp. Two hit the upper floors of the rough, cinder-block home of Omar Da'ajna. The Palestinian cook later said his children "shook like a tree in a storm" as they sheltered on the ground floor...