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"POOR MEXICO," the saying goes, "so far from god and so close to the United States." Coined by a Mexican president in the late 1800s, the saying remains ample evidence of the fear and mistrust Mexicans have always felt toward their northern neighbor. Not without reason: In a war largely...
But this does not ring true somehow. Unlike the industrial adventurers of the 19th century, most people today are very much aware of the problems, economic and spiritual, wrought by dead-eyed materialism. Arnold's criticism of his times would not be a bit shocking in ours; such criticism has...
SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE. If you loved the painting, you'll like the show. Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine based their Broadway musical on Georges Seurat's A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte and found subterranean seisms of feeling: hostile, wistful, possessed.
Duarte also deserves good grades for his handling of the military. He has taken his role as commander in chief seriously, visiting nearly all of the country's 18 major barracks and personally ordering the battalion attack that retook the Cerrón Grande dam after it was overrun...
His name has only recently become a marketable item north of the Rio Grande, but in much of the world, millions of faces, mostly female and mostly over 25, light up when he is mentioned. Feminine "ohs" reverberate from Madrid, where Iglesias was born and raised, to Montevideo. "He rouses...