Word: gibraltarian
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...instances of reconciliation go, it lacks the momentous significance of the Camp David talks. But when Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Ángel Moratinos sits down for trilateral talks with his British and Gibraltarian counterparts on July 21, it will represent a small milestone in a centuries-old conflict. For the first time in 300 years, a Spanish minister will set foot on the Rock...
...Gibraltarian plumber and a Spanish mother, Galliano, 43, grew up in gritty south London and moved to Paris in 1990. Fashion at the time was all about giant shoulder pads and drab minimalism, but Galliano was determined to change that. In 1995 he landed the job of revitalizing the stuffy house of Givenchy and shocked the French fashion establishment with his romantic vision of disheveled beauties in chiffon slips and billowing ball gowns. A year later, when he took over the coveted top spot at Dior, a couture house with a heritage more sacred to the French than...
...usual with TIME, the report on Gibraltar is completely accurate and unbiased. But as a Gibraltarian and admirer of the U.S., I must express my annoyance at the fact that since the dispute started, the U.S. Government has not once raised its voice in support of a people who only ask to choose their own way of life...
...Gibraltarians are a hardy and tough-minded race whose blood lines stretch to every Mediterranean port from Genoa and Malta to Athens and Alexandria; many, like Molly Bloom herself, are descended from Spanish mothers and British soldier fathers. Though Spanish is the common tongue and the Gibraltarian palate approves fiery paella and wine, the citizens want no part of Spain's political system or sovereignty. Instead the elected members of the Legislative Council, led by Chief Member Sir Joshua Hassan, want full internal self-government in a free association with Britain. And they want Britain finally to take countermeasures...
...Africa and made the Rock one of his Pillars. On the soft Mediterranean air, jasmine and mimosa mingle with the aroma of frying pescado and chips; from back alleys float shreds of flamenco music, tourist twist and the dogged strains of Methodist choir practice (Rock of Ages is a Gibraltarian favorite). Helmeted native bobbies impartially ogle vacationing English shopgirls, off-duty African belly dancers, and the Midwestern matrons among the 240,000 visitors who stop off there by sea each year...