World Cup Day 3: The Inevitable Surprises Everything is a little different down in Brazil. Samba and soccer rule the cultural imagination. Politics are rather more sharply drawn, as is the clash between wealth and poverty. The water rotates in the opposite direction when you flush. And topsy-turvey upsets, huge, dramatic reversals of fortune, can strike at any time. Brazil learned that lesson the hard way back in 1950, when it last ...
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