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...SPAIN New Assassinations, New Protests Two gunmen walked into a bar in Lasarte in northern Spain last week and shot dead the town's deputy mayor, Froilán Elespe. Earlier, a car bomb in Roses, in eastern Spain, killed a Catalan police officer. No one doubted the murders were the work of the Basque separatist group eta. In towns and villages across Spain thousands of demonstrators took to the streets to protest the killings...
...Paula Romero, 29, was born in Spain, has an English husband and lives in Brussels, where she is pursuing an arts degree at a Belgian university. "A true European is someone who doesn't feel his or her culture is the only thing in town," she says. "Just one culture is not enough these days." Catherine Rubbens, 34, an environmental consultant in London who left the Netherlands after high school, speaks five European languages and says she feels more European than Dutch. "I notice as I start to adjust somewhere that I speak to myself in the language of that...
...Bulgarian who just completed an internship with the European Commission in Brussels, profess a desire to return home someday. "I feel at home everywhere, but when I go back to Bulgaria now, I feel like a tourist," says Raeva, who has already lived in Poland, the Netherlands and Spain. "But of course I'd like to go back. I want my kids to grow up in my country...
...January and foot-and-mouth last week is more recent and thus more alarming. There were lines seven miles long at the Spanish border as authorities made all vehicles from France drive over disinfectant-filled carpets. Beef consumption is down 40% in Germany, Italy and Spain. Le Carnivore, a restaurant in the French city of Nantes that specializes in such alternative meats as ostrich, kangaroo and bison, is booming. French farmers estimated their losses at $185 million a month if all the embargoes against their produce hold...
What were Manet's influences? Like any great painter, he had a whole museum locked in memory. He paid particular attention to Spanish painters--Velazquez, Goya--whose work he mainly knew from prints, until he made the journey to Spain (no picnic for a traveler then) in 1865. Clearly he was much taken by the Spanish still-life painter Sanchez Cotan, and by the tradition of the vanitas--images of objects gathered together to symbolize the transience of pleasure and earthly life. And then, particularly, there was Chardin, the 18th century French master of still life, whose benign and composed...