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Carlos Clot, private eye, has seen it all. Born just before the oil ran out, he has endured Spain's election of a communist government, the resulting U.S. invasion and the rise of English as the official language. Now he prowls the carless, bicycle-clogged streets of Madrid, tracking runaway kids and errant spouses for $100 a day plus expenses. He keeps a bottle of whiskey in his filing cabinet under the letter I, for Indispensable. Into his crummy office one day walks ? ah, but we're getting ahead of the story. Clot is the hard-boiled, hard-drinking hero...
...trial was held in a specially fitted court house in an exhibition hall on the outskirts of Madrid, because none of the regular court rooms was large enough to accommodate the trial. The hearing lasted almost three months, and the three judges have been considering their verdict since July 6. Although he was not mentioned by name, high-profile investigating magistrate Judge Baltasar Garzón was criticized by the president of the court for the use of irregular telephone tapping in preparing the case...
...Sonsoles Cifuentes, professor of humanities at the University of San Pablo CEU in Madrid, said this was not the first time Garzón has been criticized by the courts for failing to provide sufficient evidence for conviction in his cases. "Several cases prepared by Garzón have ended without convictions," she noted, "which makes one wonder whether there are failures in his preparation. Often one can have moral conviction that someone is guilty, but unless it can be proved there is no case." That has prompted speculation that Judge Garzón, who is currently on sabbatical...
...Like its glorious precedents in New York, Washington and Madrid, the blessed conquest [in Britain] took the battle to the enemy's land...
Much about Rice's six months on the job has been surprising. Her enthusiasm for travel has transformed her image from that of a remote presidential consigliere to a glamorous, globe-trotting operator with first-name-only cachet. (A Madrid hairdresser has started offering "the Condi flip.") "She has a little bit of star power," says Democratic Senator Joseph Biden, "which isn't a bad thing to have." But she can also play tough: in Sudan last month, Rice demanded an apology from the Khartoum government after members of her traveling party were manhandled by Sudanese security agents...