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Evidence now suggests that al Qaeda carried out last week’s Madrid bombings in retaliation for Spain??s involvement in the Iraqi invasion and ongoing occupation. Before the attacks, Prime Minister Azanar’s Popular party enjoyed a comfortable lead in the polls. On Sunday they were ousted by incoming Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and his Socialist party. Conservative pundits, like New York Times columnist David Brooks, have been quick to denounce the Spaniards for appeasing Al Qaeda. Their arguments are not without merit, but they are overly crude...
Morente, one of Spain??s leading flamenco artists, performs to the accompaniment of guitar and percussion. 7:30 p.m. Tickets $25-$37. Sanders Theatre...
Well-connected in Catalan intellectual circles, Sert’s first major commission was Spain??s pavilion at the 1937 International Exposition in Paris. “As the product of a nation at war with itself it is a miracle,” the Carpenter Center display quotes one publication as saying at the time of the building’s inauguration. As a piece of architecture, it was a mild success. At the end of the Exposition, Sert’s design would largely go forgotten, its fame overshadowed by the mural it housed?...
...MADRID, Spain??The Fourth of the July has never evoked images of red, white and blue American pride in my mind, but instead a series of disastrous or meaningless celebrations. I recall the time 12 years ago when my best friend spent the whole celebration at Baltimore’s inner harbor crying because, she claimed, a firework had inexplicably fallen from the sky and hit her eye. I think of July 5, the night my parents usually took me to see fireworks during my childhood so that we could avoid the crowds. I remember my high school...
...bulls, he had gotten drunk and been convinced by some fellow partiers to run, only to fall on the street and wake up two hours later in the park with an unenviable head wound. Sadly, Hugo’s behavior seems to symbolize America’s and Spain??s different approaches to drinking. His experience shows that American laws should be relaxed to encourage the kind of responsible drinking that is learned from an early age in Europe...