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...when he was 17, by winning a national art prize of about $7,000, a fortune compared with the pennies his father had earned. He used the money to buy a ticket on an Italian steamer to Europe, where for about three years he painted in flophouses in Florence, Madrid and Paris. Desperate to learn about art, Botero and a friend traveled by motorcycle to the south of France, where they hoped to pick up some tips from the master himself, Picasso. The two knocked on Picasso's door, asking to meet the artist. "They told us to get lost...
...March 11, 2004 Madrid train bombings, in which a terror cell linked to al-Qaeda killed 191 and injured more than 1,500 commuters, united all Spaniards in mourning. But the tragedy has divided the country's politicians. An all-party parliamentary commission has been investigating the attack for over a year but failed to agree on a conclusion. As a result, each of Spain's eight political groups will present its own findings next week. All the reports - except for the one prepared by the Popular Party (PP), which was in power at the time - comment on the government...
...figuring out what the implications are to their product." Says Steve Tatham, author of a forthcoming book on Arab media reporting from Iraq: "People associate al-Jazeera with anti-Western sentiment." It doesn't help things that al-Jazeera's star correspondent, Tayseer Alouni, is on trial in Madrid on charges of being an al-Qaeda operative. Al-Jazeera is standing by its reporter, saying his contacts were consistent with his work as a journalist who covered bin Laden's organization...
...passes. Lluís Caldentey, the mayor of Pontons, a small town near Barcelona, has already been expelled by the Popular Party after describing homosexuals as "cretins, deficient ? and deformed." But the president of the Collective of Lesbians, Gays, Transsexuals and Bisexuals of Madrid, Arnaldo Gancedo, who is planning to wed his long-time partner, says the new law has "nothing to do with the Vatican. It is as if one state was interfering with the affairs of another. The Pope and his priests are entitled to their opinions, but they have no right to intervene in the lives...
Paris is widely considered the front-runner for the 2012 games. London, Madrid, and Moscow are also vying to host the event...