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...film Bienvenu chez les Ch'tis (Welcome to the Ch'tis) has sold more than 5 million tickets during its first week in the cinemas, shattering the previous roll-out box-office record of 3.9 million set in 2006 by Les Bronzés 3 - a comedy that similarly pokes fun at notorious French stereotypes. But whereas the Bronzés film was just the latest in a hugely popular series spanning back to the original 1978 film, Bienvenu chez les Ch'tis has been a bolt-from-the-blue phenomenon. Its simple, sex- and violence-free tale about normal...
...Although the Socialists stood to gain five seats in Congress over the previous legislature, they failed to win the 176 seats needed to form an absolute majority. As they did in 2004, they will have to form coalitions with the United Left party and smaller nationalist parties from Cataluña and the Basque Country. But in a sign of the sharpening divide in the country, those smaller third parties like United Left and the Catalan Republican Left lost significant numbers of seats. The 2008 elections, it turned out, were the most bi-partisan in Spanish history, with the Socialists...
...Officers observed an individual that was known to be involved in previous incidents with the Harvard University Police Department. A field interview was conducted and the individual was run for warrants with positive results and placed under arrest. The individual was also issued a trespass warning for all of Harvard University property. Joseph Day, 24, was placed under arrest...
...Instead, the filmmakers’ subjects talk to us about “intelligence failures,” “latitude of action,” “secretocrats,” and other jargony neologisms that you won’t find in Moss’ previous film “The Same River Twice” (although the aging hippies of that movie might have had a few interesting things to say about the side of the government portrayed in “Secrecy”). But of course, it’s titillating to think...
...knew that this might happen," said Gorka Landaburu, editor of the journal Cambio 16 and himself a victim of a previous ETA bombing. "There had been threats, and ETA often attacks during elections." Indeed, Spanish Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba last month raised the country's security alert to its highest level, saying "We believe that ETA is going to try to kill before the elections." This afternoon he told a hastily convened press conference that ETA "will never intimidate Spain's society...