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...Your coverage of the commuter-train bombings in Madrid accurately summed up what happened and its consequences [March 22]. It is still shocking to think about the horror. Some people hold Prime Minister José María Aznar responsible for the attacks and view them as retaliation for his decision to join the U.S. in the war against Saddam Hussein. But many Spaniards do not blame Aznar. Can people really believe terrorists attack only "guilty" nations and leave "innocent" countries alone? Do the victims deserve to die because of what their country has done in Iraq? We must stand...
...March 11, 2004, now occupies a place in the history of infamy." JOSÉ MARÍA AZNAR, Prime Minister of Spain, on the train bombings in Madrid that killed as many as 200 people...
Next up for McLoon will be the NCAA Championships, held in Truckee, Calif., on Mar...
...writers Alexandre Dumas fils and Guy de Maupassant were among the artists to protest the construction of "a gigantic black factory chimney" now known as the Eiffel Tower. After losing that battle, Maupassant favored the restaurant at the base - it was the only place where the tower didn't mar his view. Parisians eventually grew to love that monument, but they've never accepted many of the tall buildings that went up in the 1970s. Even after 30 years, the tower of Maine-Montparnasse, a 209-m monstrosity jutting out of a decrepit esplanade atop the Montparnasse train station...
...younger brother who yearns to join her, convinced that, even without papers, he can become a star football player if he can just reach French soil. As Salie tries to dissuade him with somber stories of the fate of other illegal immigrants, Diome exposes the myths and stereotypes that mar the largely unexplored relationship between West Africans and their former colonizers. "Young people in my village imagine life in France, but they don't really know what goes on in French society," says Diome. An illegitimate child raised by her grandmother, Diome grew up as an outsider in her village...