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...house of Castro’s cousin that he searches for a connection to food. Finding none, other than a modest meal she serves, he rambles instead about Galician migration to Cuba. Barlow doesn’t even attempt to find a porcine connection in his visit with Don Manuel Fraga Iribarne, an eminent Spanish politician. I understand that Fraga is the most famous Galician alive, but if he has nothing to do with the Celtic pig, he should have been left on this work’s cutting block. That said, his pork-free adventures could have worked...
...dominating the Asia-Europe Meeting in Beijing, and why international leaders will meet again in Washington on Nov. 15 to discuss how to reform the world's financial system. "We are living in unprecedented times and we need unprecedented levels of global coordination," European Commission President José Manuel Barroso said in Beijing on Thursday. "It's very simple. We swim together or we sink together...
...French President Nicolas Sarkozy proclaimed, "Europe wants it. Europe demands it. Europe will get it." The "it" here is global financial reform, and evidently Sarkozy won't have to wait long. Just hours after their closed-door meeting had finished, Bush and Sarkozy, along with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, issued a joint statement announcing that a summit would be held next month to devise what Barroso calls a "new global financial order...
...Alongside European Commission President José Manuel Barroso, Bush and Sarkozy called world leaders to join them at a monumental summit meeting in a U.S. city - probably at the United Nations in New York - shortly after the Nov. 4 U.S. presidential election. Following their huddle at Camp David Saturday, the trio issued a statement saying the extraordinary international congress would "review progress being made to address the current crisis and to seek agreement on principles of reform needed to avoid a repetition and assure global prosperity in the future...
...British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said that, despite the cost of going green, governments and citizens would save in the long run from the switch to cleaner energy. And European Commission President José Manuel Barroso warned that Europe was in danger of missing the big picture. "This is not a luxury we now have to forego," he said. "Climate change does not disappear because of the financial crisis...