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Because a certain kind of modernizing hopefulness fuels such extravaganzas, prospering, postfascist Spain was the inevitable next place for such an event. The Spanish government spent billions on the fair and attendant public works, including a new high-speed bullet train that makes the trip from Madrid to Seville in less than three hours. Like any world's fair, Expo '92 has its fetching gizmos. The 231 IBM touch-screen computer monitors scattered around the 538-acre site are truly useful: a visitor, presented with an aerial photo of Expo, touches anything in the picture and gets a closeup view...
...weeks ago I saw bullfight in Madrid. I didn't enjoy it very much. The killing of the bull did not disturb me, I just didn't see the point. The matador has all the advantages. But there are always those horns. After three bulls were killed that day, it finally happened to a matador. It didn't bother...
...HIGHER PROFILE accorded to the plight of Syrian Jews is evident in its mention in international arenas. At the recent Middle East peace conference in Madrid, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir raised the issue, saying the Jews in Syria have "been exposed to cruel oppression, torture and discrimination of the worst kind." Turning to the Syrian delegates, he pleaded, "We appeal to you to let Jews who wish to leave your countries...
Just two months ago, the Society, with its supposed commitment to Arab affairs (a dubious subject) did not deign to offer its support for the Middle East Peace Conference in Madrid, Spain. And, now, the Society has once again disserved Arabs at Harvard with an offensive manifestation of its extremism and baseless understanding of the apodictic realities in the Arab world...
...wonder connoisseurs call it the museum lover's museum. The Madrid structure has works by virtually every consequential artist, from the medieval masters to the Italian, Flemish and Dutch schools to Spain's most prominent painter, Picasso, whose monumental Guernica has come home after nearly 50 years of exile...