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...monarchy ridiculous, this wedding means a lot to a nation that has suffered a tumultuous past and continues to suffer its stigmatizing effects. Democracy has only recently returned to Spain after Franco’s long dictatorship (December 8, 2003 was the 25th anniversary of the current constitution). Though Franco died in 1975, he left a great impression on the city and the nation, and many of the older generations still cling to his memory. Friends visiting abroad have been asked if there are cars in Spain or if españoles go around in horse-drawn buggies. (They actually...
...KILLED. FRANCISCO ORTIZ FRANCO, 48, editor and co-founder of the Mexican newsweekly Zeta, famed for its reporting campaigns against the country's drug cartels; by a masked gunman; in Tijuana. The killing is the latest in a series of attacks against Zeta: another of the newspaper's co-founders was murdered in 1988 and its publisher was wounded in a 1997 attack...
...DIED. ANTONIO SOUSA FRANCO, 61, leading Socialist candidate for Sunday's European Parliament election; of a heart attack suffered while campaigning; in Matosinhos, Portugal. As Portugal's Finance Minister, Sousa Franco helped usher in the nation's adoption of the euro...
...express my disgust. I will never forget that Americans liberated Italy, but Bush does not reflect the America of the days of World War II. I hope he will be sent packing in the next election and the U.S. will return to being a republic, not an empire. Franco Barbagallo Acireale, Italy...
...award....? Yuya Yagira, the 14-year-old star of Hirokazu Kore-eda?s poignant Japanese drama ?Nobody Knows,? won the Best Actor prize. Best Actress went to Hong Kong?s Maggie Cheung for her role as a drug addict fighting to reclaim her young son in ?Clean,? a Franco-Canadian drama - and a rather laggard, predictable one - directed by Cheung?s ex-husband Olivier Assayas. Ironically, Cheung won over Zhang Ziyi, the star of ?2046.? Cheung had shot some scenes for that film, but was not evident in the print shown at Cannes. Success is the best medicine for disappointment...