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...trip to be marked a failure. He didn't. Indeed, so low were the expectations of him among parts of the European media that merely by showing up and speaking English--never mind the basic Spanish that he used when visiting Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar in Madrid--he would have been judged a resounding success. He sailed over that low bar. From the U.S. standpoint, the week's only truly sour note had nothing to do with the President's performance. It came, rather, with a surprise announcement by Jack Welch, chairman and CEO of General Electric...
...Latin America, a part of the world Bush knows reasonably well. He'll pay his respects to the King and Queen (Juan Carlos is an old friend of Dad's), spend a few hours at the Prime Minister's country retreat and then get some down time in Madrid. "A good warmup," admits a pleased senior Administration official. Then things get real. "The next day it's over to Brussels," the official says, a tinge of worry in his voice. "That's the first rough day of sitting around with men in suits...
...Jerusalem and peace advocate who pushed for a city open to both Israelis and Palestinians; of a heart attack; in Kuwait. Often mentioned as Yasser Arafat's possible successor, Husseini mastered Hebrew as an Israeli political prisoner in the 1980s and played an integral role in the landmark 1991 Madrid peace conference...
...Bing would, with the blowfish p's and b's). He?d most likely respond to the rare slur or setback with a blithe "Well, did you evah?" Crosby's last words, before the heart attack that killed him in 1977, at the conclusion of a foursome on a Madrid course, were "That was a great game of golf, fellas...
...bring together 88 of his photos, taken between 1948 and 2000, together with an hour-long film and seven of his shorts. The show is a co-production by the Folkwang Museum in Essen, Germany, where it was until late February, and the Queen Sofía Museum in Madrid, where it is now and until June 20. In September, it travels to Lisbon's Belém Cultural Center...