Word: jordi
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...Party (PP) government deliberately focused blame on ETA. The alleged motive: fears that evidence of al-Qaeda involvement would drive the electorate - which bitterly opposed Spain's support for the Iraq war - to vote for the Socialists in elections on March 14. "We are faced with two versions," says Jordi Jané, a representative of the moderate Catalan nationalist CiU party. "A police version and a political version. The police had discounted ETA by Friday morning, while the government - though it opened a second line of investigation into an Islamic attack - continued to blame ETA." Whom will Spaniards believe...
Dennis Quaid remembers the Alamo. "I used to play the Battle of San Jacinto as a kid," says the Houston-born star, above center, with Spanish actor JORDI MOLLA, right. Quaid, with the aid of some happenin' muttonchops and the largest standing movie set in North America (50-plus acres), plays General Sam Houston in The Alamo, due out Christmas Day. Directed by fellow Texan John Lee Hancock, who teamed up with Quaid in 2002's The Rookie, this account of the Lone Star State's battle for independence from Mexico shares little with the 1960 John Wayne film...
...JORDI SAVALL AND HESPÈRION XXI. The critically acclaimed early music group will be performing 15th and 16th century songs from the Iberian Peninsula this Friday at Cambridge’s First Church on Garden Street. The group, led by Barcelona-born viola da gamba player Jordi Savall, focuses on the pre-1800 Iberian and European musical tradition and their re-interpretation and resurrection. Their latest albums Diàspora Sefardí and El Cancionero de Montecassino received Grammy nominations in 2001 and 2002, respectively. Friday, April 4 at 8 p.m. First Church in Cambridge, 11 Garden St., Cambridge...
...skips bail to be with her, the first sign of a devotion to people that will be a constant theme in the movie. Jung is arrested after Barbara’s death and thrown into jail, where he shares a cell with a Colombian, Diego Delgado (Spanish actor Jordi Molla, making his American feature film debut). Upon Jung’s release, Diego introduces him to Pablo Escobar (Cliff Curtis). It’s not the most pleasant of first meetings—Escobar shoots someone point blank in the forehead—but Escobar takes a shine...