Word: catalans
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...seriously the Barcelona soccer team takes its slogan this week, when club president Joan Laporta agreed to dedicate part of ticket sales from its upcoming match on December 23 against archrival Real Madrid to the Federació Llull, a cultural organization that has been encouraging the spread of the Catalan language since 1990. "It is our responsibility to support and participate in these kinds of activities," said Laporta at the signing, "We do it for our sense of national dignity ... for our culture, because the Catalan language is a sign of identity for a club like...
...sports team that sponsors language study? In Catalonia, the semi-autonomous region that makes up the northeastern corner of Spain, the coalition hasn't taken anyone by surprise. Barça has been a symbol of Catalan nationalism since its founding in the late 19th century. Under the Franco dictatorship, which suppressed the Catalan language as part of its campaign to create an authoritarian centralized state, the team provided an outlet for the expression of local identity, a place where Catalan flags could be waved and Catalan cheers shouted. And now, at a time when Catalonia has achieved an unprecedented...
...Kitcho doesn't take credit cards, so we were prepared to pay $400 to $600 per person in cash. But in Japan--and certainly at Kitcho--protocol and relationships are sacred. You are nobody until someone introduces you properly. For us the magic word came from a friend, the Catalan chef Santi Santamaria, who had been introduced by the director of a well-known Japanese culinary school...
...throne, Prince Felipe, and his wife Letizia. (On Tuesday, Spain's national court fined the magazine's publishers 3,000 euros for "insulting the monarchy.") The couple were already having a tough year: A few months earlier, Letizia's sister had committed suicide. This fall, groups of Catalan nationalists publicly burned photos of the king and queen, and last week, Morocco's monarch temporarily recalled his ambassador from Madrid to protest the Spanish monarch's visit to the contested cities of Ceuta and Melilla. Through it all, Juan Carlos and his wife Sofia have maintained their habitual calm, confident...
...walking at the 2000 Olympics and another at the world championships in Osaka this year, hopes the plan is successful. She's never won gold at an international competition, and thus has never had to hum from the podium, but she can imagine how awkward it feels. "I'm Catalan, but I'd have no problem singing a Spanish national anthem," she says. "That would be phenomenal...