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...With a reported 20,000 militants at his command, Mehsud is believed to have been the architect of the 2008 bombing of Islamabad's Marriott Hotel, the mastermind behind a terrorist cell uncovered in Barcelona that same year and the dispatcher of numerous suicide bombers in the region. Mehsud has reportedly executed more than 100 rival tribal leaders to consolidate power...
Trade Credits. When you stay at Barcelona's Hotel Casanova, you'll get a one-to-one exchange rate between the U.S. dollar and the euro. Meaning you can pay the room rate, posted in euros, in an equal number of dollars, instead of the current 1-euro-to-$1.35 exchange rate. The hotel will also accept the one-to-one rate on food, drink and spa treatments. Rooms start at 134 euros, which will save you more than $45 a night by this deal's reckoning. Through Dec. 20, use the promotional code "dollar." Gran Via de les Corts...
...course, bullfighting was hardly undamaged even before this latest episode. In 2004, Barcelona approved a nonbinding resolution declaring itself an "antibullfighting city," prompting nearly 40 other cities and towns in Catalonia to follow suit; in 2007 the state-run Spanish Television networks stopped broadcasting bullfights live. A 2006 Gallup poll found that 72% of Spaniards said they were "not interested" in what is still commonly referred to as the "national fiesta...
...triumphant 2007 return to the ring, following a five-year hiatus, was seen by many aficionados as a way of stanching the decline. In his first fight back, Tomás sold out "antibullfighting" Barcelona's 20,000-seat ring. But even his powers aren't unlimited, say critics. "Who is he to decide what is worthy and what isn't?" asks the Rivera family friend. "Art is in the eye of the beholder...
...foreigners. For England's Kate Winslet, her sixth Oscar nomination was the charm after being named Best Actress for her role as a concentration camp guard in The Reader. Spanish enchantress Penélope Cruz won Best Supporting Actress for her fiery painter in Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona, making her the first Spanish actress to win an acting Oscar. And in the ceremony's most emotionally honest moment, the mother, father and sister of the late Australian star Heath Ledger accepted his Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in The Dark Knight. "We have been truly overwhelmed...