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When Mullah Mohammed Omar announced on Feb. 26 that the big Buddhas were to be destroyed, Luis Monreal had a bright idea. Archaeologist, art historian and director of Fundació la Caixa , the cultural foundation in Barcelona sponsored by the Catalan savings bank of that name, Monreal decided to display a side of Afghanistan little known in Europe. In six months, a quarter of the time it normally takes to plan and mount an international exhibition, the Caixa Foundation, in tandem with the Guimet Museum of Asiatic Art in Paris, brought together 230 pieces from U.S. and European museums...
...World Bank announced Tuesday that fear of protest and disruption had prompted it to shift the venue of next weekend's conference on Third World development from the Catalan city to cyberspace. The online conference is an attempt to avoid the now-familiar spectacle of international delegates (sometimes even heads of state) barricaded inside heavily fortified conference venues as riot police outside battle anti-globalization protestors. The World Bank's annual meeting in Prague last September was cut short by street protests, and an outbreak of violence at the European Union summit in Gothenburg last week - during which live ammunition...
...from the Middle East, and that along with their barley and wheat they sowed the overwhelming dominance of their tongue throughout Europe. But as the genetic evidence now suggests, neither warriors nor farmers were able to keep their language to themselves. The Indo-European language family - from Lithuanian and Catalan to Swedish and English - spread far more successfully across Europe than the genes of its original progenitors...
...giving away valuable code for free. David Neeleman's jetBlue airline (January) just celebrated its first birthday, took delivery of its 11th new Airbus 320 and prompted U.S. regulators to coin the term jetBlue effect, which occurs when the upstart enters a market and fares plunge. And the edgy Catalan chef Ferran Adria (November) got his own cooking show on Spanish TV. Of course, some of our rebels have had problems. Joseph Park, founder of the defiantly free U.S. delivery service Kozmo (September), had to impose a $2 fee on small orders to make ends meet. And Steve Stanford...
SPAIN New Assassinations, New Protests Two gunmen walked into a bar in Lasarte in northern Spain last week and shot dead the town's deputy mayor, Froilán Elespe. Earlier, a car bomb in Roses, in eastern Spain, killed a Catalan police officer. No one doubted the murders were the work of the Basque separatist group eta. In towns and villages across Spain thousands of demonstrators took to the streets to protest the killings...