The Sunday Telegraph London, March 14th, 2004
It's 10pm on the rooftop bar of the Hotel Unique in Sao Paulo. The crowd here isn't just new money - it's the very latest money in town, wafting up in its unstructured suits and strappy dresses from Jardins, the upscale neighbourhood 10 floors below. The tower-block lights of half a dozen different city centres - Sao Paolo is huge - glitter in the distance.
The crowd nibbles pizza and sips Champagne while samba is piped into the swimming pool. Downstairs, where the shelves of bottles behind the bar reach 40ft above the cavernous lobby, young men in dark suits break away from the party to chec...
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