Word: exultation
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...frenzied carnival in Rio de Janeiro, a city that knows how to party perhaps better than any other. As the decision was announced, the world forgot Rio's problems for a moment, especially its frightening murder rate, and watched tens of thousands of its residents, known as Cariocas, exult on Copacabana Beach, dancing to deafening music in tanga bikinis and drinking Skol and Brahma beer around a massive banner that read, "Rio Loves You." "This will bring a lot of investment to Rio," said Andressa Gomes, 19, a student teacher who came to Copacabana to "cheer, pray and celebrate." Said...
...through a local outfitter (try www.nitun.com). The trail proper starts at the village of Carmelita and the wise will arrive in dry season (November to May), when the rainforest is scorching but mosquito- and mud-free. The journey is utterly exhausting, of course, but your inner Indiana Jones will exult at your first glimpse of El Mirador - thought to be home to around 80,000 at one time. (See 50 authentic American travel experiences...
...Championship. But television has acquainted us with these streamlined, postmodern missiles; more precious is the chance to see the Fiat that won the 1907 French Grand Prix. Its frame now seems impossibly frail, but in their time, vehicles like this prompted the founder of Futurism, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, to exult that racing cars were more "beautiful than the Nike of Samothrace...
...were finally counted in the Iowa straw poll on the evening of Aug. 11, former Governor Mitt Romney was the winner, with 31.5% of the vote. But it was Mike Huckabee, the laid-back former Governor of Arkansas, who bounded into the press tent ahead of the others to exult in his second-place finish. Romney's win was preordained--he spent a reported $2 million on the event and has led in Iowa polls since mid-May. But Huckabee, who has raised only $1.3 million all year and spent less than $150,000 on the straw poll, had scuffled...
...when Republican Brian Bilbray - who, as both a former Congressman and a lobbyist, held the two least popular credentials imaginable in 2006 - won by a surprisingly comfortable four-point margin over Democrat Francine Busby, a local school board member, his party was quick to exult. "National Democrats did not discover their shock wave in San Diego," National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Tom Reynolds, who runs the House election effort for the GOP, said in a statement that landed in the e-mail boxes of political reporters shortly after dawn on Wednesday. "National Democrats must come to terms with the fact...