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...sort of a blog, with entries added daily, exactly 70 years after Orwell wrote them. Running from 1938 through 1942, the diaries cover the early days of World War II as well as Orwell's travels in Morocco, where he recuperated from injuries he received in the Spanish Civil War. There's also a lot about chicken farming...
While we didn’t sign a language pact, it’s safe to say that all or almost all of us came here to strengthen our Spanish language skills. For me, I’m hoping to work in Latin America the year after I graduate. So doesn’t it make sense for us to speak in Spanish as much as possible...
...later, I asked my friend who had studied here in the spring what she thought. She suggested it was unnatural for people who share a native language to speak to each other in a different one. Her Spanish had gotten better anyway—but she was here for five months, while we’re here for just five weeks...
Argentine artist Pérez Celis moved comfortably through many media, producing innovative sculptures, paintings and murals and even recently illustrating a Spanish translation of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. While he exhibited his work around the globe and lived abroad for many years, his devotion was ultimately to his homeland and his favorite sports team. Two of Celis' colorful murals adorn the walls at the Buenos Aires stadium of his beloved Boca Juniors soccer team. He died of leukemia...
...wake-up call arrived in May 2003, when al-Qaeda suicide bombers killed 45 people and wounded dozens of others in Casablanca in explosions outside a luxury hotel, a Jewish center, a Spanish restaurant, a social club and the Belgian consulate. Since then, Morocco has been rocked by scattered acts of terrorism, and in February police arrested 38 people who were allegedly members of an extremist gang suspected of pulling off robberies in Europe in the mid-1990s to bankroll a plot to assassinate Moroccan ministers and police chiefs. "We also know that Moroccans are feeding into the pipeline...