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...invasion of Iraq - with Spanish participation - became a prospect. He worked as a sales agent for much of last year, but at the same time was gathering acolytes in Madrid mosques. He stopped showing up at his job in January, and, according to a neighbor, left his apartment in northeast Madrid just three days before the bombing - still owing two months' rent. His body was in the rubble in Leganés, as was that of his presumed No. 2, Jamal "El Chino" Ahmidan...
...warning, which ETA usually gives; the deliberate targeting of civilians; and the sheer scale of the operation. Despite the government's professed certainty of ETA's guilt, doubts began to creep in. Then on Thursday evening, Acebes announced that in Alcala de Henares, a town about 19 miles northeast of Madrid where three of the ill-fated trains had originated and which the fourth had passed through, police found an abandoned white Renault Kangoo van containing seven copper detonators and a tape of Koranic verses recited in Arabic. That discovery harked back to the hours after the attacks...
...load of rubbish to call it a sophisticated attack," says British security expert Michael Dewar. "You and I could do it." Some 10 million train and subway trips are taken every day in America. Amtrak shuttles 66,000 of those passengers, two-thirds of them through the target-rich northeast corridor. The Washington Metro moves 600,000 people near national monuments. What makes trains useful is what makes them devilishly hard to secure: many doors, high volumes of passengers and thousands of miles of lonely tracks. "I hear people saying it is virtually impossible to make public transport...
...Felice, Eterea” pop up in orchestral forms not too distant from their 19th-century originals, except, of course for the presence of Byrne’s Francophone chops. He is joined on the Bizet cover by Rufus Wainwright, another artist from the northeast known for operatic pop. The two singers’ distinctly diverging croons weave in and out of the sounds of Texas’ Tosca Strings, a superb juxtaposition of very different vocal stylings...
...completely agree with Ryuji, who is my good friend and mentor. Even at February’s American College Dance Festival, directors from dance programs across the northeast marveled at how Harvard is able to foster such great creative work and talented dancers. We don’t have a dance major, and almost all of the work we do is extracurricular and student-run. So, we have no choice but to be creative—to take our ideas and run with them. While dance professors at other schools may formally teach their majors how to choreograph or dance...