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...publicist Alonso Colmenares, whose picture-perfect (but real) country set-up The Farm was the setting for a recent Gucci summer event....
...Juan Domingo Perón and his wife Evita are the most emblematic. But Carlos Menem and Cristina Fernández also illustrate the trend. All are Peronists....
...All his life, Juan Martínez Alonso has voted for Spain’s centre-right Popular party. This time, however, could be different....
...One of the treats of Tefaf in March this year was a group of 10 exuberantly naive gold-ground panels (c1410-1420) by Juan de Sevilla at Matthiesen....
...Iniesta and Xabi Alonso were dreadful too. But none matched Casillas....
...This would put him in exclusive company with only Alain Prost, Juan Manuel Fangio and Michael Schumacher as winners of more than three titles....
...Alonso Tobón, an analyst with CERAC, a think-tank in Bogotá, said, “It is an issue of governance as well as a reaction to the deterioration in Santos’ popularity because of criticisms in his handling of...
...“One can’t be Robin Hood and at the same time earning a salary as the sheriff of Nottingham,” said Alfonso Alonso, parliamentary spokesman for the ruling PP in Spain’s parliament....
...The car that took Juan Pablo Montoya to victory in the 2004 Brazilian Grand Prix – adapted to squeeze in two passengers plus the driver – accelerates up a 133-foot (40-metre) hill before taking the sharp...
...Botín’s other key lieutenants – the Inciarte brothers – are widely seen as too old (Matias) or too gung-ho (Juan)....
...What makes Biko stand out from some of the other top Mexican restaurants in the city is that there are two Basque chefs at its helm – Mikel Alonso and Bruno Oteiza....
...An example is Alonso Cano’s pensive “Inmaculada” (1650-60), a work that has been reattributed to Cano after being on the Spanish art market: today, says Andréa Gates of Matthiesen, it would probably not...
...He compared well with Ralf Schumacher, his more experienced team-mate, but Williams had already decided to hire Juan Pablo Montoya for 2001....
...According to Juan Antonio Samaranch, a Catalan financier and member of the International Olympic Committee, Spain’s emergence as a global sporting stage is closely linked to its role as an incubator of talent...
...Fernando Alonso ruled Formula One. Spain’s basketball team became world champions before pocketing silver in Beijing. In June the football team won Euro 2008....
...River wear white with a red sash but two years ago their fans released thousands of orange balloons before kick-off at la Bombonera in celebration of a famous goal Norberto Alonso had scored with an orange...
...■TENNIS Top-seeded Rafael Nadal reached the semi-finals of the Mercedes Cup on Friday with a 6-1, 6-3 win against Argentina’s Juan Monaco....
...Juan Manuel Fangio, the five-time Formula One world champion, once said: “There are those who keep out of mischief, and there are the adventurers....
...While many at the time were predicting that Juan Pablo Montoya would be the man to take his crown, Schumacher himself spoke privately of Alonso as the danger man....
...Betting on the promise of a young Asturian called Fernando Alonso, he and his partners bought local transmission rights in 2002, when Spain’s motor racing fans would have fitted in a large town....
...With Michael Schumacher settled into retirement, Jacques Villeneuve and Juan Pablo Montoya exiled to America and the five remaining thirtysomething drivers clinging to the final years of their contracts,...
...Juan Pantoja de la Cruz’s 1605 version of Charles is, in fact, Titian’s, right down to the Emperor’s amiable, crooked smile....
...These are backed up by fascinating pictures from Miró, Gris, Zurbarán, Ribera and Murillo, plus unexpected discoveries such as Alonso Coello or Juan Sánchez Cotán, neither artist ever seen in the US before...
...This week a panel, including Juan Antonio Samaranch, the former International Olympic Committee president, awarded him the country’s highest honour for a sportsman, the Prince of Asturias, a cross between...
...Juan Pablo Montoya won Sunday's Italian Grand Prix in a race that in many ways summed up this year's world championship, writes James Allen at Monza ....
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