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- WORLD, Page 61World NotesBRAZILAll in the Family
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- It was a project so simple even an undergraduate could do
- it. But what Maria Aparecida de Oliveira, a student at the
- University of Brasilia, learned in the course of her research
- was enough to send all Brazil into a furor. She found that
- nearly half the country's 570 Deputies and Senators have
- relatives squirreled away on the government payroll, many of
- them in cushy, high-paying jobs. Worst-case abusers included a
- former Senate president who provided jobs for at least nine
- family members, and a Deputy who hired his wife and three
- daughters.
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- News of such nepotism hardly came as a surprise to David
- Fleischer, chairman of political science and international
- relations at the same university, who says, "It's part of the
- Brazilian culture." In fact, Fleischer believes Oliveira's
- study was not thorough: "There's a lot more nepotism going on
- than she reported."
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