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...traditions - they worship the same sports stars, they drink the same wines, they dance to the same electronic beats, they vacation on the same beaches. Things go wrong only when attempts are made to craft European institutions and a European identity from the top down; a recent poll in Spain found that only 1% of respondents had any idea what the convention on a European constitution was meant to be doing...
What she means is that the world threw its hat in the air for Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, it said yes to Daniel Libeskind's angular plans for the World Trade Center site, so it is good and ready for her. To be precise, Gehry's museum, the war whoop of new architecture, readied us all for the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art (CAC) in Cincinnati, Ohio, Hadid's first project in the U.S. and one very suavely managed bundle of energy. "There was an idea that these were things that the general public would...
...currently at 10.4% and at a staggering 18.6% in the eastern states, is not likely to change soon." Goecke expects the most popular destinations will be the Netherlands (where the construction industry is in need of skilled workers) and Scandinavia (where medical personnel are needed), as well as Spain, Austria and Switzerland. Even among Germans who do have jobs, the atmosphere of pessimism and insecurity is driving people away. Berlin nurse Michael Günther was so "thoroughly disappointed by the government" and the "declining standards" of the country's financially ailing health care system that he decided to move...
...shot through the throat. As he recovered, the Soviets were double-crossing their Republican clients. Bowker reports that a Soviet spy had been tailing the politically unreliable couple for months. Moscow's betrayal of the Spanish revolution turned Orwell against communism and the manipulation of language: "In Spain, in fact, I saw history being written not in terms of what happened but of what ought to have happened according to various 'party lines.'" His stinging 1938 memoir Homage to Catalonia brought him vilification from the left. The fearful Orwell borrowed a revolver from Hemingway. He and Eileen took a house...
...conscious when killed so that the blood pumps out. Animals used for halal and kosher meat must be healthy and uninjured when slaughtered for consumption. Although animal-cruelty regulations throughout Europe say that livestock must be stunned before slaughter, Britain and most countries allow exemptions on religious grounds. Spain, for example, permits the religious slaughter of sheep and goats, but not beef. It's this loophole that the F.A.W.C., a government advisory body, wants to close. Muslim and Jewish leaders say the proposal smacks of cultural bias, and the shared threat has forged an unlikely alliance between them. At London...