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...movie last weekend at Los Angeles' Landmark Pavilion theater, an art-house mecca, was the same as the one that drew the biggest crowds at the Block Orange, a 30-screen AMC theater in a sprawling Orange County shopping mall: a tiny, Spanish-language sleeper called Under the Same Moon (La Misma Luna). A kind of Finding Nemo of border politics, Under the Same Moon follows a nine-year-old boy's travels from Mexico to the U.S. to reunite with his mother, an illegal immigrant who cleans houses in Los Angeles...
...scenes in the hospital and morgue were particularly ghoulish, with patients covered with synthetic wounds and bloody bandages wailing and moaning on dirty mattresses strewn about the floor. Even the British stiff upper lip seemed to quiver a bit as members of the response team tried to mediate in Spanish between injured countryman pleading for help and the local Dr. Giggles who wanted to take...
...respondents in a recent poll by the Allensbach Institute said they believed that German participation undermined German security by drawing unwanted attention from would-be terrorists. In Spain, according to a 2007 survey by Instituto Opina, a Barcelona-based polling group, over 51% said that they wanted to get Spanish troops out of Afghanistan altogether...
...just Germany, however, where the political will to fight is lacking. Spain, which has some 750 troops in Afghanistan, is not expected to up that contribution substantially any time soon. "[The Spanish] supported Afghanistan when they understood the mission as humanitarian," Robert Matthews, a researcher at Madrid's Foundation for International Relations and Foreign Dialogue, explains. "But as the operation has become more military in nature, support has dropped." Even in France, which has superb armed forces held in high regard by the public, and which is on the verge of cementing its "reintegration" into NATO's command structure, there...
...minutes for a steak burrito, Burks was back in line—before even taking a bite—to wait again for a second. Students came from Tufts and local high schools such as Cambridge Rindge and Latin. One teacher from Rindge and Latin brought her whole Spanish class to the restaurant and offered her students extra credit for doing a survey in Spanish about Chipotle, according to Andrea Catalano, the Chipotle employee overseeing the promotion. A. Lowell Richardson, a freshman at the Berklee School of Music in Boston, was getting his money’s worth from free...