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...contentious, raffish, yeasty place of shopkeepers. Catalans, as Robert Hughes sympathetically calls them, pride themselves on their pragmatism and their independent-mindedne ss: two of their sovereign virtues are mesura and ironia. And at the heart of their idealized self-image is seny, or "a natural level-headedness." The patron saint of Barcelona, St. Eulalia, is also the patron saint of stonecutters, bricklayers and millstone makers...
...sudden, three successive deaths shake-up the slumbering small town. First a high school student, then a homeless man and finally Adele Baraclough the local art patron are all found dead. The murders would seem unrelated except for the JUST ASK MONTY campaign pin that graces each corpse. Monty Monteagle, the newly-elected reform-minded mayor, is just one of the town's many suspects...
...like Richard Kreimer with a storefront drop-in center that's free of bureaucracy," he says. "Let's face it. Most of the current system is set up to perpetuate itself. It doesn't work." The American Library Association dedicated part of its winter meeting to a seminar on patron conduct. "That's inspired by the Richard Kreimer case," says Richard Kreimer...
Some Seattlites suggested that the Nordstrom family buy the Mariners or that Boeing subsidize the team in some way. Most serious baseball fans prayed that the patron saint of Seattle, Microsoft whiz kid Bill Gates, would turn out to have played Little League before turning to computers...
Officials said that proceeds from the museum's gift shop as well as patron donations are being contributed to public service programs created by the museum's directors to encourage Boston high school students to remain in school...