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...annoy the neighbors," Ruiz says. The neighbors have mixed feelings about the mosque. "We need to put the past behind us and think how we can work together in these difficult times," says Sister María, a nun visiting Granada from her home near Madrid. But her more cloistered sisters in the adjacent Convento de las Tomasas don't seem to be on the same wavelength. Ruiz points out that they have raised the height of the wall that divides the convent from the mosque and topped it in part with a metal grill. "We shall ignore it," says...
...their vacation homes in the warm south. But even when the sun isn't shining, Europeans seem to be throwing themselves into fun and festivity with unprecedented zeal. Each weekend, central London is one great bacchanal. Cities that for reasons of politics or religion were once gloomily repressive - Madrid, say, or Dublin - now rock to the small hours. In Prague the foreign visitors who get talked about are not the earnest young Americans who flocked there in the early 1990s, but British partygoers who have flown in for the cheap beer and pretty girls. The place that British historian Mark...
...recent swing through the Middle East, Bolton made it clear to his hosts that the U.S. expected support for a plan to interdict North Korean arms shipments in the air and on the high seas. The controversial plan was first aired during a mid-June meeting in Madrid between representatives of 11 countries: the U.S., Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and Spain. North Korea's arms sales "finance their nuclear weapons program," says Bolton. "This is not money that goes to the starving people of North Korea...
...other day, I asked—almost without thinking—whether he had attended Harvard (he replied that he had just visited). I would never ask that to a person in the United States. I was so excited to attend Harvard´s Collegium Musicum concert in Madrid last week, even though I never had any interest in attending one back at Harvard. I eagerly accompanied a Spanish friend to see the Spanish version of The Matrix Reloaded even though, despite the Cornel West cameo, I had absolutely no interest in seeing it back in the states...
Jenifer L. Steinhardt ’05, a Crimson editor, is an economics concentrator in Adams House. When she’s not busy pilfering pesetas from Iberian fiduciaries, she can be found roaming the streets of Madrid in search of fuegos artificiales...