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...troops in 1937, were caught and shot in the head. In addition to setting up the Civil War and Francoism Commission, Zapatero's Council of Ministers authorized in January an increase in the pensions Spain pays to the now elderly children of Republicans who were sent to Russia and Latin America for their safety during the Civil War. "A country dignifies itself ... when it remembers those who have suffered, like those Spaniards who so unjustly had to leave Spain," the Prime Minister said in May. His government has also backed other efforts: to rename streets named after Franco...
...Khwarizmi wrote a mathematical treatise that for the first time used the word al-jabr - algebra - to describe the process of solving equations. Three Baghdad brothers produced pioneering works in mechanical engineering. In Cordoba, under princely patronage, the 12th century thinker Ibn Rushd, also known by the medieval Latin name Averroës, reconciled Islamic religion and Aristotelian philosophy in ways that would influence the European Renaissance. While the Golden Age empire was wealthy, diverse and unified by a common language, regional politics were not always stable. The polymath Ibn Sina (980-1037) found himself out of favor - and sometimes...
...course, once a collectivist not always a collectivist. Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, a professor of globalization and education at New York University, has been following 400 families that immigrated to the U.S. from Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. Many hailed from villages where the American culture of competition is alien, but once they got here, they changed fast...
...Still, this was hardly the kind of visit Bush had imagined when he was elected President. As a former governor of Texas who spoke Spanish, Latin America was supposed to be his forte. But 9/11 kept the President's focus off the area, and the Iraq war never drew significant support from the leaders of Latin America?s young democracies. And so, the President who might have been a big hit in the region has paid a price...
Maybe it was ominous that Air Force One had a rocky landing as we came into Mar Del Plata, Argentina. The plane shook violently as we approached this coastal city that will host the Summit of the Americas, where President Bush faces a difficult time in discussions with Latin American heads of state. He's still being dogged by questions about the CIA leak investigation, while his domestic poll numbers continue to fall. And the outlook for the administration on the substance of this summit is less optimistic than in previous meetings of the leaders of the Western Hemisphere...