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...Luis Alcántara is afraid that group will be large enough to undo 11 years of work. Since 1998, he has run a bullfighting school in Hospitalet, just outside Barcelona. His enrollments were hurt by the under-14 provision of the animal-cruelty law that was passed in 2003, and these days, he has only nine students practicing their capework on an abandoned football field. He worries that the initiative will put him out of business altogether. "Nobody here really hears about us," he says. "We go to a corrida and then go home until the following Sunday...
...cuisine, dinner in a Japanese restaurant, breakfast with Italian coffee and panini, tea with scones, clotted cream and jam, and in the evening tapas and papas bravas? It seems that the writer has no interest in finding out that Indonesian food also exists and is very, very good. Jaime Alcántara, LLÍBER, SPAIN...
...Australian cuisine, another dinner in a Japanese restaurant, breakfast with Italian coffee and a panini, tea with scones, and finally tapas and papas bravas [April 27]. It seems that the author does not want to know that Indonesian or Balinese food also exists and is very, very good. Jaime Alcántara, Lliber, Spain
...million facility was set up by the Fundação Oriente (Orient Foundation) - a Portuguese cultural organization established in the former colony of Macau in 1988 - and showcases a vast array of Asian artifacts on five floors in a magnificent Art Deco building along the Lisbon waterfront at Alcãntara...
...boycott unless the government lifts the current state of emergency, which allows the Sandinistas to control both the press and the army. Ortega announced that the opposition would be given equal media time and access to government funding, but it is still unclear exactly how freely it will be alc lowed to function. Junta Member Carlos Nuñez, wary of the boycott threat, hinted that the government might consider lifting the emergency law as early as April...