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...trip from the new Spain to the old is but a five-minute stroll across a gleaming white bridge that spans the Guadalquivir River in Seville. On one / side, near the monastery where Christopher Columbus was once buried, rise the extravagant pavilions of the Universal Exposition. There, 250 fountains gurgle, 325,000 newly planted trees and shrubs shade the weary, and 96 restaurants replenish the hungry. But once over the bridge, sidewalks crumble and the highway dead-ends in a stinking garbage dump known as El Vacie. Within earshot of Expo 92's loudspeakers, 500 Sevillians elbow one another...
...Andalusia, where an estimated 44,000 Spaniards, many of them Gypsies, live in poverty. But Expo's construction introduced a new level of envy and conflict. Additional squatters whose homes were bulldozed for the fair moved in, swelling the waiting list for El Vacie's promised houses. At the fountain, a fistfight broke out between women jostling for water, and one was admitted to the hospital with a broken leg. "Expo is a disaster for the poor," says Miguel Angel Moreno, a local Human Rights Association volunteer. "It drained money from social programs and doubled our cost of living...
That fall, my roommates and I received a chrysanthemum plant from the three men who had lived in our Holworthy suite 25 years before. Their note, written in fountain pen, wished us well and hoped that room 22 would bring us as much happiness as it had brought them. To that day, they were still the best of friends...
...could want is in the Harvard library system. All of the ice cream a person could want is in the six shops within a ten minute walk of Harvard Yard. There is free live music of the streets every night. When it gets too hot, people play in the fountain in front of the Science Center. For summer in the city, it's pretty much ideal...
Harvard Square is not landlocked. Subversives may favor cracking open a fire hydrant, but there are plenty of other ways to get wet this summer. The fountain in front of the Science Center is a prime place to cool off. Beaches are within an easy ride by public transportation. And the Charles River, while hazardous to swim in, is perfect for rowing, canoeing or sailing...