Sublime

The situation in Rio das Pedras was less positive, however, than it seemed. One barbarism had been kept at bay by another. Back in the 1980s community leaders had paid a group of off-duty policemen and other residents to keep out drug traffickers from the nearby City of God (Cidade de Deus), a favela whose gang violence was brought to international

Bill Tafoya, the special agent who served as our “futurist” at Quantico, advocated a minimum of a ten-year commitment of money and resources on the magnitude of what we sent into the Persian Gulf. He calls for a wide-scale reinstatement of Project Head Start, one of the most effective long-term, anticrime programs in history. He doesn’t think more

tous les trois. Quoique… » Il n’aimait pas Dov Lazarus (qu’il ne connaissait que sous le nom d’O’Shea, pseudonyme que Dov utilisa à Tanger tout du long) et au vrai, en avait peur. À deux ou trois reprises, il l’avait vu en grande conversation – et en anglais – avec des espèces d’Italo-Américains assez inquiétants, citant des noms comme ceux d’Hymie

For artists hailing mostly from poor and working-class backgrounds, the perennial, high-paying patronage promised by Americans was no less than the proverbial pot of gold.