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...Nuder, during last month's election campaign. But Denmark's former Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen warned that simply borrowing Nordic policies without adapting them to national conditions would result in "bad karaoke." Still, the survey suggests Europe's biggest economies need to do something radical: France, Germany, Spain and Britain all slipped in this year's rankings, and Italy came in at No. 47 - just ahead of Botswana...
...tragically displaced heroine, Kaja, and in a sense the work itself. The talk of the 2000 Frankfurt Book Fair, Kuraj won a yurtful of literary prizes after it first appeared in Italy in the same year. Subsequent translations have charmed critics in France, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands and Spain. Newly published in English, it comes with a map of the many trans-Caucasian journeys recounted, plus a glossary of words imported from Arabic, Hindi, Kyrgyz and Russian: you're in for a long - and enchanting - trip. Kaja, born into the nomadic Tunshan tribe in the late 1930s, can trace...
Friday, Oct. 14—Sunday, Oct. 16. Fourth Annual Boston Latino International Film Festival. The Boston Latino International Film Festival (BLIFF) focuses on alternative films with social content from Latin America and Spain, and on films dealing with Latino issues in the United States. Tickets $8; students and seniors $6. Tickets at the Harvard Film Archive...
...Spain for a month and the song was “La Camisa Negra,” by Juanes….Once, while the song was playing, I was in line for the bathroom [at a bar] and a guy peed on my feet. So the song reminds me of the carefree spirit most Spaniards have...
...Spain's Audiencia Nacional sentenced the Syrian businessman Edin Barrakat, alias Abu Dahdah, alleged leader of Al Qaeda in Spain, to 27 years in jail for his role in the 9/11 attacks. His sentence is considerably less than the 74,337 years demanded by the prosecution, after Abu Dahdah was found guilty of conspiracy in an act of terrorism over 9/11, but not guilty of the murder of 2,973 victims of that day's attacks. The court sentenced 17 of Barrakat's fellow accused to between six and 11 years in jail, and acquitted the remaining...