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...Spanish feminists, the small shock of that moment is exactly the point. "It's an important image precisely because it conveys normality," says Marisa Sotelo, president of the Madrid' based Women's Foundation. "It serves a pedagogic function: it shows that women can be and are everywhere...
...summit in Bucharest he maintained that current levels were sufficient. Among the largely pacificist Spanish population, support for military participation in combat is weak (over 50% of Spaniards support withdrawing their troops from Afghanistan altogether). But humanitarian and peace-keeping missions are another story: a 2005 poll by the Madrid-based Center for Sociological Research puts public support for those military efforts at more than 90%. The figure of a pregnant woman - "a woman in full womanhood," as Montaño puts it - only drives home that distinction. "It shows that the army doesn't just have to fulfill this...
Located in a 170-year-old club, the sort of place where a butler might be on standby to hold a drink for a member as he takes a shot in the billiards room, the restaurant La Terraza del Casino in central Madrid reeked of stuffy formality. So it seemed like a daring choice to put the eclectic Spanish artist Jaime Hayon, known for reimagining Lladró's porcelain collectibles, in charge of the redesign. But chef Paco Roncero, who worked at the famed El Bulli, was a fan and wanted Hayon to match the restaurant's décor with...
...image of the prophet Mohammed with a bomb under his turban, one of the Danish cartoons that sparked riots two years ago throughout the Muslim world. Wilders goes on to juxtapose verses from the Koran with statements from radical clerics and scenes of horror from New York to Madrid to London. One verse (Surah 4: 56) reads, "Those who have disbelieved our signs, we shall roast them in fire...
...just Germany, however, where the political will to fight is lacking. Spain, which has some 750 troops in Afghanistan, is not expected to up that contribution substantially any time soon. "[The Spanish] supported Afghanistan when they understood the mission as humanitarian," Robert Matthews, a researcher at Madrid's Foundation for International Relations and Foreign Dialogue, explains. "But as the operation has become more military in nature, support has dropped." Even in France, which has superb armed forces held in high regard by the public, and which is on the verge of cementing its "reintegration" into NATO's command structure, there...