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...Bullfighting used to be extremely popular in Catalonia," says Matthew Tree, a Barcelona-based author who writes frequently on Catalan identity. "But things change. Franco made it a bastion of fascist Spain, and that switched off a lot of Catalans. It was forced on them as this aggressively Spanish thing, and that was offensive to them...
...Facing a bastion of liberal policy-making in Washington and coping with a lack of charismatic leadership, Republicans are licking their wounds and trying to regroup from last November. Meanwhile, factions of moderate Republicans try to distance themselves from the far-right adherents to Beck and Limbaugh. Where bipartisan collaboration is needed, there are those willing to put their country first and reach across the aisle. But when it comes to simply giving up to a majority without fighting for principle, Republicans keep on truckin?...
...fashion history, and with it, an intimate look at the foremost fashionista of past 20 years. Amidst fashion’s pop cultural boom, awash with reality television shows and mediocre celebrity clothing lines, Cutler managed to wriggle his way into the offices of Vogue—the last bastion of classic luxury journalism—to chronicle the creation of a single issue in his new documentary.At the helm of this extraordinarily influential monthly fashion tome is editor-in-chief Anna Wintour. Her ubiquitous sunglasses and the withering glare behind them provided fodder for “The Devil...
Even within sight of the former U.S. embassy turned Revolutionary Guards bastion, one can hear such sentiments. One woman, her hijab pulled back revealing much of her dyed hair, honks her horn at a group of foreigners outside the embassy. With a smile, she gives the peace sign before zipping off into the distance...
...Singapore is no bastion of socialism. But when the country's economic czars began to attract multinational companies like Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Matsushita to locate their manufacturing facilities in Singapore in the 1960s, they tacitly agreed to keep wages for blue-collar workers low by de-fanging the unions that once had a stranglehold over the labor force. As a cargo handler, for instance, Krishnan made just $1,000 a month...