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...specialization. Some gangs do the snatching and then pass on their captive, for a fee, to another gang." The money changing hands at this stage may be no more than a few hundred dollars; the muffled conversation Waddah heard at the first house may have been a quick round of bargaining...
...supposed to be easy for Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and now, four weeks after a surprising stumble, that once again looks likely to be the case. Lula, as he is known to Brazil's 125 million voters, was forced into a runoff in the first round of voting, hurt mainly by a corruption scandal involving his party. But on the eve of Sunday's runoff vote he is far ahead of his rival, as most analysts expected. "If you look at the course of the last five or six months there has only been one poll...
...Brazilian Social Democratic Party. Alckmin benefited when members of Lula's Workers' Party (PT) were caught trying to buy documents to smear electoral rivals. The scandal helped Alckmin eat into Lula's lead and deny him the 50%-plus-one margin needed to claim outright victory in the first round of voting, which gave Alckmin 41.6% to Lula's 48.6%. But that may be as good as it will get for the former governor of Sao Paulo state. Even after he took the offensive in televised debates with stinging attacks on the endemic corruption inside Lula's government...
...Lula admitted he was disappointed at his failure to win in the first round, but analysts said the four weeks of additional campaigning may have a positive side for both the candidate and his country. Lula is bit more bloodied and a lot more humbled after four weeks of verbal sparring. Alckmin's attacks have forced him to recognize the importance of being seen to fight corruption, and he may show less tolerance in his second term for miscreants inside his party. Still, the president will take comfort from the electorate's endorsement of his agenda. If the polls...
...reminded me of when former Yankee third basemen Wade Boggs inexplicably hopped on a police horse and took it for a few spins around Yankee Stadium after the 1996 World Series. And in Wade’s defense, his team had just won the World Series, not the first round of the playoffs. Still, to single out Kenny Rogers in the same way Barry Bonds has become the poster boy for the steroids controversy is unfair. The proper question is not, “Who is using pine tar?” The right question...