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...Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte) by Javier Recio Gracia (Non-dialogue...
...reach of Jolo. The following year it seized 20 more people from a resort on Palawan, in the southwest Philippines. It held the three Americans in the group for several months. One, Guillermo Sobero, was beheaded; another, Martin Burnham, was killed during a rescue mission that freed his wife Gracia...
...Gracia Sánchez doesn't stray far from her father's thinking, but says the changes in Spain since her childhood are "mostly for the better." As a devout Catholic, however, she opposes the Zapatero revolution. "We've gone a step farther than was requested," she says. "Gay marriage and adoption wasn't a response to a demand from the people. It was a way to create a fracture in society; a coup de théâtre, to show how modern and advanced [the Socialists] were." Her husband Enrique Trabado, a lawyer for a major construction firm, provides...
...Gracia Sánchez has always been part of a large family. The oldest of eight siblings, she is now a mother of four, from José Maria, 13, to Quique, 15 months. "We're not standard," she says with a laugh, sitting in her central Madrid living room as her two middle ones, Jacobo, 9, and Gracita, 7, carry in a plate of home-baked cookies. "People at work say, 'There's no way you have four kids!' " Her half-day job as a youth counselor allows her to drop off the kids at school and pick them...
...refuses to regard De Jesus as silly: Tweed is impressed with its use of Spanish language media and even YouTube. But at the same time, he thinks it is nothing to be afraid of. Technically, Tweed notes, Crecienda en Gracia is a cult, a small group in some tension with the world at large and organized around a single magnetic leader. But it is not a cult as understood in the popular sense: Jim Jones or the Branch Davidians, who in deep self-imposed isolation, honed a violent apocalyptic element that eventually led to murder or suicide. Those at last...