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...NOTEBOOK: Julie Trotman '89, who led Radcliffe to its last nationals bid in 1989, will represent the U.S. in the Summer Olympics to be held in Barcelona, Spain. Last week, Trotman won the Olympic individual
...much blame for environmental degradation should the cattle industry rightly shoulder? In the Netherlands, for instance, manure from pigs poses a major ecological threat, defiling water supplies with excessive nitrates and acidifying local soils. Sheep have permanently scarred the landscape in Spain and Portugal, while in India -- a country that Rifkin praises for its kindness to cows -- bovines are ravenous wraiths whose constant quest for food drives them to ravage standing forests. Holy or not, most of India's 200 million cows go hungry much of the time...
...writer read from a section of the book in which a frustrated British writer decides to join the fight against the fascists in Spain. "Soldiers, not writers, determine the fate of the world," the character decides...
Cynical commentary on 90s musicals aside, outstanding performances by Raul Julia and Sheena Easton make the show an exciting journey through sixteenth-century Spain, chock full of inspiring idealism a la Miguel de Cervantes...
...that the savory city of rebels and craftsmen would appeal to Hughes, the longtime art critic for TIME and the epic chronicler of his native Australia (in the best-selling Fatal Shore). In Barcelona Hughes shows, in magisterial detail, how the brash province has always been as distinct from Spain as Catalan is from Spanish (derived as it is not from early Latin but from later). At the same time he notes, with affectionate irony, how Catalans have sometimes sung the praises of their unique tongue in Spanish. Some Catalans, he remarks, feel homesick even while at home...