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...Catalan living in London and, of course, a great Barcelona club supporter. Usually Catalans are portrayed as selfish people focused upon their narrow-minded identity, but your article offers an evenhanded take on what my nation is - a small but vibrant, civic and open community. Ivan Serrano-Balaguer London
...says. “That offers it a little protection in a way because no one is interested in it.”THE PROFESSOR In spite of poetry’s declining popularity in mainstream culture, Valentine does her part to keep the genre vibrant in the classroom for new generations of writers.Valentine held her first teaching position at Barnard in the spring of 1968, in the midst of political tumult. After a month of classes, Vietnam protestors at Columbia shut down the university, she recalls.“It was a very interesting time to be a student...
...Nazis and their allies carved it up among themselves during World War II. Yugoslavia was resurrected again after the war by Josip Broz Tito - a Croat - who used communism and his charismatic personality to glue it back together. It was the most liberal of all communist countries, with a vibrant private sector, and it was relatively prosperous. At the time I was born, in the '60s, the living standard in Yugoslavia was about the same as in Greece and Spain, and considerably higher than in Portugal. Unlike our East European neighbors, we could sample the Western lifestyle and were free...
...entire debate about illegal immigration is completely laughable when you know the true history of the United States. The least legal and least assimilate-able immigrants were the Pilgrims. And if you look at it from a Native American perspective, which I try to - and there are several vibrant Native American nations that still function in New Mexico, where I live - it's obscene that you have someone like Lou Dobbs! It's estimated that 100 million Europeans over the history of this country came here without documentation. Are we going to send everyone descended from them back? To claim...
...Dale Evans, who took a shine to the kid) and where he eventually enrolled at the USC architecture school. There he somehow managed to fail a basic course. In his early years he says he was more drawn to the company of the painters and sculptors leading the vibrant LA artistic scene than to his young architectural peers. Ed Ruscha, Julian Schnabel , even his psychiatrist, Milton Wexler, make appearances in what might be called supportive roles in the film, as do clients and other admirers, most of whom manage to stay shy of sycophancy. The film also offers a very...