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...culture clash. Crown Prince Felipe of Spain, a mucho eligible bachelor, has been hanging out lately with an American lass, Giselle Howard--to the delight of Spanish paparazzi. One of them, Carlos Arriazu, was overeager, and is being charged with illegal wiretapping after he was caught in a sting operation while trying to tap Howard's phone. Arriazu says he didn't know wiretapping was illegal in America...
Recent events seem to bear out Wilkinson's assessment. For example, attacks against university professors have occurred recently in Northern Ireland, Italy and Spain...
...other U.S. women won, which means a semifinal showdown Wednesday between Mary Joe Fernandez and Lindsay Davenport, who are close friends as well as teammates. At least one of them will take home a medal. Novotna's opponent in the semifinals will be No. 3 Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario of Spain. In women's basketball. the U.S. team finished the preliminary round with another rout, beating South Korea 105-64. Reserve Nikki McCray led five players in double figures with 16 points as the United States won its pool with a 5-0 record. Argentina qualified for the men's volleyball...
Before I came to Spain, I did not have any idea of where the United States stood in relation to the rest of the world. I always thought that things in America were the norm. Now I'm learning the meaning of the "difference." Riding the bus out of Madrid on my first day in Spain, I was surprised to see that between the city streets and sun-bleached countryside, there was nary a green-grassed suburb. I was even more astonished by the absence of safety fencing around the steep cliffs of the mountain ranges in northern Spain. Living...
...other Spaniards. It probably wouldn't faze an Italian either. But for an American, especially one from New Jersey and Harvard, living in Leon has been like living on another planet. It has forced me to evaluate the way Americans do things with a more critical eye--and sometimes Spain seems the more sane country. For instance, why are Americans obsessed with getting drunk--something that is considered unpleasant and unhip in Spain? Why are there so many restrictive laws and so many lawsuits in America? And why are Americans such slobs, while Spaniards make their beds and clean their...