Word: madrid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ferrell's reading included the following passage: "empty streets Madrid, empty / streets Paris, empty streets / New York; even if your shape / were to haunt these byways do / you know they would still be empty / since your soul is never / was never...
DIED. PRINCE ALEXIS D'ANJOU DE BOURBON-CONDE, 47, heir presumptive to the Russian throne; of complications from brain tumors; in Madrid. Alexis claimed to be the grandson of Grand Duchess Maria, the third daughter of Csar Nicholas II; either Maria or her sister Anastasia, some have theorized, escaped the Bolsheviks' 1918 massacre of Russia's royal family. Last October, Alexis gave a blood sample for testing to compare his DNA with that in bone samples taken from the massacre site; no official findings have been released...
...along with what Russia has claimed to be a legal defense of conditions--brought about through coercion and held together by threat and surreptitious russification. One thing is clear: it is better to live in a quiet house than in an unsafe apartment block. Michael Wolynskyj Madrid If Yeltsin has gone too far, there is a likelihood that the President will lose his position to an opposition group, a more thoughtful and reliable choice for democratic Russia. But what if Yeltsin continues his strong line, breaking laws and violating human rights without any fear of legal reprisals? That would mean...
...measure of its destructiveness. A small quake in the center of a city can kill 1,000 people for every life lost to a monster tremor in a thinly populated place--like the death toll if any (there doesn't seem to be an exact count) in New Madrid, Missouri, in 1811-12, when it was rocked by one of the most severe series of earthquakes ever to strike the U.S. The Kobe quake was only slightly bigger than the Northridge tremor but more disastrous in part because its full force appeared to hit densely populated parts of the city...
...people of Galicia are so guarded, other Spaniards joke, that if you catch one of them on a staircase, you'll never discover whether he or she had been going up or down. But Ramon Sampedro, of the Galician fishing village of Xuno, 620 km northwest of Madrid, could not be more open about his intentions: he wants to die--so much so that he has asked the European Commission on Human Rights in Strasbourg to declare it his entitlement...