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...tradition, Greece led the Athlete?s Parade, followed by the countries in alphabetical order, in Italian, from Albania to Venezuela, with Italy the climactic parade. Stati Uniti D?America came between Spain and South Africa. Some of the smaller, tropical delegations were crowd pleasers ? Kenya with two athletes got big cheers, as did Senegal, with three. New Zealand wore menacing black. Team USA brought much of the crowd to its feet. The athletes entered under the five giant Olympic rings, which represent the five continents and rose through the early part of the ceremony and then took on their traditional...
...Others are less pleased; one onlooker in particular wrote that he finds the sculpture “an ugly, rusty eyesore!” Yanguas says that she expected a variety of reactions to any kind of contemporary art, mentioning that her friends back home in Spain had similar reactions to the Gehry-designed Guggenheim museum in Bilbao when it opened. “Everybody was amazed. Either you love or you hate it. But maybe they say the same thing about Michelangelo,” Yanguas says. Godfrey, a Yale and Edinburgh-educated artist, says that he has been...
...many College students look forward to testing their skills in the world, some foreign professionals who are already accomplished in the world are returning to the classroom. In a new transnational initiative, Harvard Business School (HBS) and leading business institutions in China and Spain are training Chinese corporate leaders to better understand global markets. The “Global CEO Program for China,” run by HBS, China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in Shanghai, and Instituto de Estudios Superiores de la Empresa (IESE) in Barcelona, will take a group of CEOs to three continents—while...
Europeans are what environmentalists would describe as an endangered species: their number will decline by almost 50 percent over the next century. Europe’s fertility numbers are harrowing; not a single country’s birthrate is at the rate of replacement and several, including Spain, Italy, and Russia, are at less than half the rate needed to keep a population stable. Although several commentators, including Harvard’s own Tisch Professor of History Niall Ferguson, have bemoaned Europe’s accelerating descent into senescence, they are, by and large, voices in the dark...
...earliest tale has Thomas the Conquistador seeking the tree for his lover Isabel, the Queen of Spain, who is under threat by conspiring forces of the Holy See. The book opens with a Hollywood style set piece as Thomas leads a band of soldiers in an assault on a huge Mayan temple thought to contain the Tree. As hundreds clash on the temple steps a stony-eyed Mayan priest tears the still-beating heart out of a Franciscan friar. It's an exciting sequence that takes best advantage of artist Kent Williams' ability to combine expressive, natural characterization with fantastically...