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Although they are mountain climbing in Nepal, enjoying siestas in Sevilla, Spain, exploring Aztec ruins in Mexico or savoring crepes in Paris, these adventurers are currently only an e-mail message away...
Sarah H. Winkeller '00 has embraced the mantra articulated the first day of classes by her Spanish history teacher in Sevilla Spain. Describing the philosophy of Andalucia, the southern region of Spain, he said, Trabajar para vivir, no vivir para trabajar...
...monuments of long ago still loom over Sevilla, so do the events of today. Two weeks ago, a politician roughly the equivalent of a deputy mayor and his wife were killed in the early morning hours in a street not far from the cathedral. The Basque terrorist group ETA (don't ask me what it stands for--I'm still a foreigner here) claimed responsibility for the assassination. While terrorism is, unfortunately, not unknown in the U.S., we are still accustomed to pinning it on a psychopath or a small group of fanatics. The idea of a terrorist group established...
...Sevilla responded to the tragedy with shock and outrage. There were demonstrations in the street, long marches with banners and posters asking for peace. Children and old people, as well as torrents of students, sang stirring or mocking songs and chanted as they walked down the central avenue in front of the cathedral...
When my friends and I left around 3:30 a.m., the dancing was still as jubilant and the voices as loud, the drink flowing and the room still crowded and bright. Not only with walls of stone does Sevilla remember its history...