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Summer Of Fear SPAIN Officials worry that a series of three bombings, which injured 14 people, mark the launch of a summer campaign by the Basque terrorist group ETA. The first two explosions happened at tourist hotels in the Costa Blanca resorts of Alicante and Benidorm. After a phoned warning to a Basque newspaper by a man claiming to speak on behalf of ETA, police evacuated more than 100 staff and guests from the hotels. Four policemen were wounded in the Benidorm attack, while the nine injured in Alicante were mainly foreign students and their teachers at an adjacent language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 7/27/2003 | See Source »

Ernesto Gomez and his wife Blanca had been planning to get a divorce for three years. They had already separated and worked out custody and child support for their two kids. But they had stalled on filing because they didn't want to deal with the hassle and expense. Hiring a lawyer, they were told, would cost at least $1,500. Using a free service offered by the court would involve numerous meetings spread out over several weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Express Divorce | 7/7/2003 | See Source »

George W. Bush, for his part, intends to stay ahead of the curve. The day before Cinco de Mayo, he invited 200 guests to the South Lawn for mariachi music and Mexican food. "Mi Casa Blanca," he declared, "es su Casa Blanca...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: La Nueva Frontera: Courting A Sleeping Giant | 6/11/2001 | See Source »

Bush said he will work to unite America. His appointment of Ashcroft as Attorney General proves the opposite. Bush has taken the first step to break the fragile connection that could unify us. BLANCA SURGEON Santa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 12, 2001 | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

Julio ("Chino") Mercado, the narrator of Ernesto Quinonez's fine debut novel, Bodega Dreams (Vintage Books; 213 pages, $12), knows the projects of Spanish Harlem in New York City. So he also knows that the best way to survive them is to get out. He and his pregnant wife Blanca are putting themselves through college at night. Their goals are the usual ones: to get nice jobs, to buy a house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moving Up | 3/27/2000 | See Source »

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