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...Dialogue To many, Germany is an oasis of labor peace. Between 1990 and 1998, the country lost just 13 working days per 1,000 workers annually because of strikes. In the U.K. the figure was 32, while France lost 87 days and Spain 344. Unions like the powerful IG Metall, which represents workers in manufacturing industries from cars to electronics, agreed to modest wage packages in hopes of creating more jobs. But IG Metall signaled last week that peace has its limits. Germany's largest industrial union took a strike vote in two regions of the country, and companies began...
Cruz and Ortiz were born a year apart in Seville, Spain (the former in 1948, the latter in 1947), and both graduated from the Madrid School of Architecture in 1971. Their work has been erected throughout Spain—primarily in their native and adopted homes—but has also been welcomed in Germany and the rest of Europe. Cruz and Ortiz are currently guest lecturers at the GSD, and in a fitting homage to their award-winning work, models and preliminary sketches detailing some of their most notable work now inhabit the lobby of Gund Hall...
...football stadium at Jerez, Spain, follows a similar pattern of broken linearity. The oval stadium seating is topped entirely by a corrugated metal covering, but has its lines interrupted by a pavilion that escalates above the surface. In contrast to the undulating planar surface, the pavilion is a jagged enclosure with the appearance of fractured rock...
...over an episode of The Simpsons in which the family visits Brazil. While there, Bart is ingested by a boa constrictor, Homer is kidnapped by a taxi driver and monkeys roam the streets. Perhaps most insulting, the show suggests Brazil is responsible for the Macarena (the dance comes from Spain). Riotur spent $18 million promoting the city last year and doesn't want it to go to waste, though bringing attention to the episode with a lawsuit may not help. Simpsons executive producer James Brooks tried to defuse the situation: "We apologize to the lovely city and people...
...Kirkland House, Coral Fernandez-Illescas, a native of Spain and currently an assistant master in Rockefeller College at Princeton University, will assume the position from Timothy C. Harte ’90, who will accept a tenure-track position at Bryn Mawr College...