Word: juan
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...It’s frustrating when you don’t control your own destiny,” junior libero Juan Ramos said after the Roger Williams match...
...says. "There's been no need for someone to contravene the law of the land the way Mamère is doing in France." More surprising is the apparent serenity with which the topic is considered in Spain, despite the country's Catholic heritage. Last week Justice Minister Juan Fernando López Aguilar listed an initiative for gay marriage among proposed amendments to the Spanish penal code. A vote is expected in the National Assembly by early 2005. There and elsewhere in Europe, the question of children - what the French call homoparentalité - may be the most difficult...
...wonder the modern world can find a place for Alan Bennett. In an age of braying, he whispers. In a pop culture consecrated to Don Juan, he seems the grayish professor - a wan don. His plays, for stage and TV, are subtle comedies about daft people (The Madness of George III, The Lady in the Van) or lost ones (An Englishman Abroad, Talking Heads). His method is understatement, indirection, irony. "In England, we never entirely mean what we say, do we?" a Bennett character declares in the 1977 play The Old Country. "Do I mean that? Not entirely...
...I.O.C.'s unexpected bullishness stemmed in part from reduced expectations. The alarm was sounded in 2000 by then I.O.C. president Juan Antonio Samaranch, who said the Athens effort was the worst organizational crisis in recent Olympic history. When Angelopoulos-Daskalaki took over the Games organization shortly after, she scaled back extravagant projects. Last February, the I.O.C.'s new president, Jacques Rogge, urged Greeks to forget the frills. Landscaping plans were pruned, a rail line was cancelled and the plastic roof over the Aquatic Center was scrapped. Even if everything goes well from here, those compromises will be felt. Visitors...
...loving wife and five successful children. Then of course, there’s that small matter of his two best-selling and critically acclaimed novels, and his achievements as a veteran Hollywood screenwriter—with screen credits including Alex & Emma, The Legend of Bagger Vance, and Don Juan DeMarco, which he also directed. His new movie, The Notebook, opens in theatres everywhere on June...