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...liberalization of Europe's telecom markets in the late '90s that forced Telenor abroad, in search of growth to offset stiffening domestic competition. But squared up against the region's big boys - Telefónica, say, or Deutsche Telekom - Telenor was too small to make much headway in established European markets. It "never had the firepower to go for scale in Europe along the lines pursued by others," says Martin Mabbutt, telecoms analyst at financial services group Nomura in London...
Many Harvard students consider the outside lives of their teaching fellows a mystery. For Verónica Rodríguez Ballesteros, a TF for Spanish A, there lies a persistent passion for theater behind the verb conjugations and vocabulary lists. Pursuing a PhD in theater studies at the prestigious Complutense University of Madrid, Rodríguez premiered an original play, “Chéjov en el jardín” (“Chekhov in the Garden”), on Feb. 21 at the Teatro Español, a prominent theater in Madrid, where it will...
...story.”Putting on the Spanish play in an English-speaking community has presented many obstacles. “I think it’s a challenge for the students, and it’s a challenge for the audience,” said Verónica Rodriguez Ballesteros, a graduate student in the Romance Languages and Literatures department, who aided the members of Teatro with mounting the production. “I admire this group of students who have dared to delve into Lorca’s universe, which is so complex and so intense...
...account of the disappearance of the little girl in Portugal, I have been thinking a lot about one of your books lately, A Child in Time. Did you base the book on a real story or was it all just a creation of your very sensitive mind? -Verónica Meersohn, Puerto Montt, ChileIt was something I invented. Although stories like this are occasionally in the newspapers-so I must have read a couple of stories in newspapers about such things. It struck me as peculiarly painful and retched experience for a parent to go through, especially...
...Volz, ironically, had tried to address some of these issues in the pages of his magazine. But when he was moved from jail to house arrest last Thursday, many townsfolk said it was just more of the same. "If he were a Nica, they won't have let him out," one local woman complained. But Anthony says the facts clearly show her son was in Managua, two hours away, at the time of the murder; and she is looking forward to having her boy freed and returning home to Nashville next week. "I think he will stay at home...