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Among the most artful desisters is Homero Aridjis' 1492. This moving picaresque novel-at once a punctilious historical reconstruction of Fifteenth-Century Spain and a dazzling, original work of fiction-magically brings to life the other 1492, the year of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain...
Finally, some minorities don't even have a choice about whether to join a group. Manuel S. Varela '94 was born in Spain. At Harvard, he found organizations for Mexican-Americans (RAZA) and Puerto Ricans (La Organizacion), but not for students from Spain. "To some extent I was turned off by that," Varela says, and as a consequence, he "didn't really get involved" in any Hispanic groups...
...long kept America's attention by playing hard-to-get, but now it wants respect. Germany, after a long period of forced repentance for its sins, wants to get back into the game. Most of the rest of the EC (including the former colonial powers Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, and Portugal) can't go it alone on the world stage, but wouldn't mind pooling their resources to get a piece of the action...
...well-modulated hysteria suggests at least two earlier occasions when an elite, in the name of the presevation of virtue and with an impeccable, unassailable logic, did in those whom it could neither control nor convert: the first of these took place in the ecclesiastical dungeons of pre-modern Spain, and the other on the gibbits of Salem. In both cases, a relentless logic and a fear of an untidy universe provoked in ordinarily pious and decent people an evil all the more heinous for its pretensions to reason, virtue and compassion...
...source of legitimacy beyond parliamentary politics and popular will. The extra institutional support comes in handy in moments of crisis. With complicated and turbulent histories, during World War II Norway's King Haakon and the Netherlands' Queen Wilhelmina gave their occupied countries an additional symbol of resistance. In Spain the modern monarchy's services to the constitution have been more than symbolic. In 1981, when gun-toting, right-wing officers seized parliament and held it hostage, King Juan Carlos went on Spanish television in full uniform and used his royal prestige to rally the army around the constitution. Boris Yeltsin...