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...Sagra, Spain Spaniards refer to the crash of their once booming real estate and construction industries as a "crisis of bricks." In La Sagra, they take that phrase literally. Located about 40 miles (65 km) south of Madrid, the clay-rich county produces roughly 30% of Spain's bricks, and boasts the greatest concentration of brick works in Europe. But right now, La Sagra's factories aren't making much of anything. "The warehouses are full," says Carlos Duque, general secretary for the Castilla-La Mancha branch of MCA-UGT, the construction workers' trade union. "They just don't have...
...crease and given three cheers by the English players, was bowled anticlimactically for nought. Watching from the press box, Fingleton and his mate, bowling great Bill "Tiger" O'Reilly, were beside themselves with mirth. Growden defends them: "And why not? They were laughing at a god with feet of clay ... Laughing at an old antagonist who'd just got his comeuppance...
...Aiken, Clay •homosexuality of at long last acknowledged...
...CLAY AIKEN comes out. Also: sky blue; water...
...fact that Kadima must choose between two leaders who would take the party in substantially different directions is a product of the party's origins: Like Jewish mythology's Golem, a living creature of clay who carries out its master's bidding, the party was molded as a personal political vehicle by Ariel Sharon. But when, in January 2006, Sharon lapsed into a coma from which he has not recovered, the party lost its identity. Sharon's deputy and successor, Olmert, drove the party into the ground with scandals and a disastrous military campaign in Lebanon in 2006. It remains...