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...stand trial" for alleged embezzlement and other crimes. Over 100 people were detained and more arrests are expected. PORTUGAL School for Scandal Prime Minister José Manuel Dur?o Barroso ordered an investigation into claims of a high-level cover-up of 30 years of sex abuse at the Casa Pia, the country's biggest school for deprived children. Families Minister Felix Bagão sacked the school's administration, and its employee Carlos Silvino was arrested and charged with being a pedophile and using children for prostitution. The announcement followed claims by former Families Minister Maria Teresa Costa Machado that...
When she was picked up at a railroad station of the industrial city of Ploiesti in June 2000, Nina was a hardened little street child who hoarded food, carried all her belongings in a plastic bag and regarded strangers with a suspicious frown. Today, as a resident of Casa Austria, a family-type home in Ploiesti for children in need, she seems the picture of happiness. Though still a bit hyperactive, she smiles constantly, is extremely sociable and spends most of her time at play. She may never learn the identity of her parents, how she ended...
Espinoza takes considerable pride in the authenticity of his recipes, ingredients and cooking methods. Scoffing at rivals such as Casa Mexico, Anna’s Taqueria, Boca Grande and especially Border Cafe, where he once worked as a waiter, he says New Englanders have no idea what real Mexican food is like...
Before Paul died, in 1994, we'd agreed we'd eventually end up at Casa Dorinda, the lovely retirement community in Santa Barbara where I live now. Paul had been in a nursing home for five years before he died, so my transition from our dual life to a single one was gradual. It was hard, of course. We'd had such a cooperative marriage. First I'd helped him in his diplomatic work; then he'd helped with my books and television shows. But I decided to go on, to continue with my work, which I love. I also...
...celebrating. "I think Barcelona has finally decided to have an entente cordiale with him," says Giralt-Miracle, who is director of the Gaudí Space, an area dedicated to the architect's works located in the vast attic of one of the best-known of them, the Casa Milà, in Barcelona's elegant Passeig de Gràcia. An example of this relationship is that Catalans unflatteringly dubbed the Casa Milà La Pedrera "the quarry," for its stone...