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...Soirée de Star offers its staged stardom in Paris, Nice, Cannes, Toulouse, Barcelona and Madrid. It's not unusual to spot celebs on the streets of those cities, but now the heavenly body you're chasing might turn out to be more earthbound than you thought. tel: (33-1) 47 49 80 77; www.soireedestar.fr
...Prices start at $362 for an hour-long package, while tailor-made all-day glitzfests that can include limousine rides, hovering photographers, red carpets and four hysterical fans cost up to $4,234. Soirée de Star offers its staged stardom in Paris, Nice, Cannes, Toulouse, Barcelona and Madrid. It's not unusual to spot celebs on the streets of those cities, but now the heavenly body you're chasing might turn out to be more earthbound than you thought. tel: (33-1) 47 49 80 77; www.soireedestar.fr
...known to flirt with higher literary flights, notably in The Club Dumas, but in his hard-boiled, mordantly funny, unapologetically entertaining Captain Alatriste series (of which this is the second volume), Pérez-Reverte firmly buckles on his swash and swaggers into the muddy, bloody streets of 17th century Madrid. It's a poor but proud city where tempers run high and everybody is ready to stab and/or shoot one another at the drop of a plumed, foppish hat and where a woman has just been found strangled in her sedan chair, along with a pouch of coins...
...inability to repeat 9/11 is a blow to its prestige and pretensions of leading a global jihad. Anyone can put a bomb in a Bali discothèque. But in more than four years, al-Qaeda has not been able to do anything in America even on the scale of Madrid or London...
...Valley of the Fallen memorial, it should consider the actions of both sides. Crimes and atrocities were committed in Spain by both Franco's Nationalists and the opposition Republicans. If the discussion is not evenhanded, half the Spaniards will not be represented. Antonio Pérez Rubio Madrid Franco is dead and forgotten in the minds of most Spaniards. We were ready a long time ago to lay him to rest. He and his supporters, an insignificant minority of Spaniards, do not play any role in current Spanish politics. You included with your story a photo of supporters...