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...guez Zapatero. At a December rally in Madrid to "defend the Christian family," Cardinal Augustín García-Gasco lambasted Socialist initiatives, saying, "The culture of radical laicism... leads to nothing but despair along the road of abortion and 'express divorce.'" Benigno Blanco, president of the Spanish Forum for the Family, agrees. "The reform has transformed the marriage contract into trash," he says...
...wrote his senior thesis on governmental reform and volunteered for the Phillips Brooks House Association. During his senior year, his teaching fellow in a Spanish class put him in touch with a school on Manhattan’s lower east side, which catered to at-risk Latino youth. After graduation, he worked there for two years before returning to Boston and continuing his role as an educator there...
...Awards. Apparently, Hollywood has a big man-crush on the night's honorary chair, Javier Bardem. Wilson, Diving Bell director Julian Schnabel and Dustin Hoffman all copped to it. Hoffman even claimed to have created a love child with Bardem - Philip Seymour Hoffman. Sharing a bed, the good-natured Spanish actor from No Country For Old Men remarked, would be a good way to work on his English...
...supermaket chain was targeted as were Albanian sweet shops and bakeries. (Slovenia currently holds the rotating EU presidency while Albania has consistently supported the secession struggle of Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority.) Serbian state television pulled American movies and sitcoms off the air and replaced them with Russian and Spanish dramas. (Spain and Russia have refused to recognize Kosovo...
...warned shoppers not to be scammed by ticket offers: "Hang on to your money and take a free seat in front of your television." Some 7.6 million viewers tuned in to the CNN airing, and that doesn't include an unaccounted Latino audience who listened to the debate on Spanish-language Univision. "It's an old story - it's not ever about politics, its about attractive candidates," Bill Miller, an Austin political consultant says, adding that this year the Democrats have two attractive candidates locked in a tight race. "People want to be in on the action," he adds...