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...hard for John, I can see, because it is something about which he is ashamed. But his willingness to open up is a statement that he trusts me, too. For quite a long time, I used whatever he admitted in the next argument and he was hesitant to say anything. That is, gratefully, behind us. There is still a great deal of sorting through to do - the lies went on for some time. And we both understand that there are no guarantees, but the road ahead looks clear enough, although from here it looks long...
...night in the hospital. Unlike her husband, she was exposed to the full media frenzy on the virus adding to her anxiety. "I couldn't get to see him at all, not even though glass. So I just had to imagine what he was going through," Arcos says, also wearing a facemask in their apartment. "I tried to tell myself he was strong. But then my other relatives would say how bad this swine...
Panamanians take justifiable pride in their operation of the Panama Canal. Since the U.S. handed the famous waterway over to Panama nine years ago, the independent Panama Canal Authority (ACP) has run it more efficiently, more safely and more profitably than the Americans did. Too bad, most Panamanians say, that their government is still best known for the kind of corruption and waste that has marred the small Central American country's reputation ever since pirates haunted the Caribbean. If they could just run the nation the way they run the canal, Panamanians believe, they could become a world-class...
...Gorka Landaburu, the mere fact that a non-nationalist might hold the region's highest office represents an unprecedented recognition of Basque political diversity. "It's an important day, you could even say an historic one," says the editor of the San Sebastian-based periodical Cambio 16. "Basque society is a plural society. This election reflects that...
...last term, Ibarretxe expended a good deal - some critics would say all - of his political capital in an ill-fated attempt to hold a referendum on independence for the Basque country. That effort was quashed by the Spanish parliament, which judged it unconstitutional. But the Socialist victory does not necessarily mean that Basque society as a whole is becoming less nationalist. According to polls conducted by Euskobarometro, the percentage of Basques who desire independence has hovered around 30% - sometimes rising a few points, sometimes falling - since...