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Monthly Archives: June 2012
Queen’s diamond jubilee concert a tough gig for rock and royalty
In recent weeks, it has been pointed out more than once that during the Queen‘s silver jubilee in 1977, the only real role pop music had to play was as a lightning rod for anti-royalist sentiment. The kind of people that … Continue reading
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Syrie : pourquoi la révolution n’est pas prêt de s’arrêter
Ce qui se passe aujourd’hui en Syrie après les massacres de Homs et de Houla ne peut se réduire à une simple guerre civile ou à une simple guerre de religion. Derrière les affrontements, face à la confusion régnante, les … Continue reading
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Sindelar, el Mozart coherente
¿Cómo actuar cuando la historia te aplasta? ¿Qué hacer con las ideas si la vida te va en ello? Ningún astro del balón ha respondido a tan retóricas y candentes preguntas mejor que Mathias Sindelar, el Mozart del fútbol, el hombre … Continue reading
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Tamils deported to Sri Lanka from Britain being tortured, victim claims
The British government is forcibly deporting asylum seekers who are then tortured in Sri Lanka, according to the testimony of one victim who was left scarred and suicidal after a brutal two-week ordeal. The victim told the Guardian he was … Continue reading
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Le bon choix de Ben Zabo
Chanteur et guitariste, mais aussi technicien du plus grand studio de Bamako, le Malien Ben Zabo crée la surprise avec son premier album dans lequel il se fait le porte-étendard de la culture méconnue de l’ethnie bwa, avec des arrangements … Continue reading
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¡Queremos un eurobono tuyo!
Tampoco vamos a ponernos ahora tiquismiquis y empezar a discutir si eurobonos sí o eurobonos, no. La cosa es evidente. Los eurobonos eran una estupidez antes, porque así lo decían en el Gobierno, y hoy son un extraordinario acierto porque ayer, con … Continue reading
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Spain caves in to market pressure and asks Europe for bank bailout
Spain dropped its opposition to external funding and for the first time yesterday appealed to Europe for help in overcoming its worsening financial crisis, after Germany proposed a banking union to stabilise the Continent’s economy and ease eurozone turmoil. Madrid’s … Continue reading
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Grèce : les inégalités sociales se creusent
Ces derniers jours, la Mémorandocratie s’apparente à un château branlant, tandis qu’en dehors de la Baronnie et pour ce qui est de la «construction» européenne, la grande auberge devient décidément espagnole, sans compter sur les spéculateurs qui donneraient trois mois … Continue reading
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Carlos Fuentes recibe en el Cervantes el homenaje de sus amigos escritores
Como escritor de ambición y huella, Carlos Fuentes no se conformaba con dominar la imaginación y el lenguaje: quería redimensionar el tiempo. Rendirlo a sus pies. Como Joyce, como Cervantes, como Proust, como Dios en la Biblia, sabían que la … Continue reading
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Revolutions don’t always pan out quite as we wanted
Does a “deep state” exist in Egypt? I’ve been asking myself that in the streets of Cairo as more and more people – doormen, shopkeepers, policemen’s families and taxi drivers – express their support for “Stability Shafik”, Hosni Mubarak’s last … Continue reading
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Nulla dies sine linea 