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BRUSSELS: The Euro is real, and it arrives in eight months and six days. The European Union took a giant leap forward Wednesday by officially recommending 11 nations to be included in the new currency next January: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain. "We are at the end of an historic process," said EU president Jacques Santer...
...appears to have lived considerably himself, in unusual ways and places. He knows how trout-fishing in Michigan feels; how Yankee jockeys, straight and crooked, ride on European tracks; how half-breed squaws bear their children back of the logging camps; how bulls and toreros slaughter one another in Spain. How he knows things you cannot say; he writes so directly, without fuss and feathers, with so little explanation of himself. He is that rare bird, an intelligent young man who is not introspective on paper. His stories are often incomplete; just facets of life, color and touch, like Katherine...
...fists] Secretary of State William Seward tried to avoid the Civil War in 1861 by offering to abandon Fort Sumter and provoke war with Spain. Lincoln put the kibosh on these plans, and the nationwent...
...SEVILLA, SPAIN...
...streets, malls and public high schools of Los Angeles, as well as in Harvard Yard, there are more cultures than I can fathom. There are even more names, a medley against which Spain, or any other country with such a single dominant culture, can't compete. After meeting my umpteenth Javier, I realized that names alone can be an indicator of the variety of a place. It's not that there aren't common names in this country; my name alone claims an unruly percentage of each entering class at Harvard. But names come from a family's history, religion...