Hints and tips:
...Tobias Buck Madrid There is a strange little expression in Spanish that captures something of the carefree spirit of a sweltering Madrid summer: estar de Rodríguez, which literally means “to be Rodríguez...
...Kobe Bryant, basketball LA Lakers guard Bryant’s five championships, numerous Most Valuable Player (MVP) awards and current sixth place on the all-time scoring list have made him the game’s biggest star...
...Reporting by Stanley Pignal in Brussels, Gerrit Wiesmann in Berlin, Victor Mallet in Madrid, Kerin Hope in Athens, Chris Bryant in Vienna and Jennifer Hughes in London...
...Even Americans have searched more for Ronaldo this year than for many of their own best athletes, such as Alex Rodriguez, Derek Jeter and Shaquille O’Neal....
...“The problem for Spain is that it’s not going to get better quickly,” said Dominic Bryant, senior European economist at BNP Paribas....
...José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, prime minister, refused to acknowledge the crisis until evidence of a serious economic meltdown had piled up around him....
...“They are stuck with taxes,” says Dominic Bryant, senior European economist at BNP Paribas. “With a lot of rigidity on the spending side, taxes will bear more of the burden.”...
...The figures come as a blow to José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, the Socialist prime minister....
...No wonder IMG, the people pulling the strings, decorated the tents in Bryant Park with images of red, white and blue sloganeering buttons. Hokey, yes (“Vote Fashion”? “Fashion Wins”?), but accurate....
...dependent on imports for almost all of its oil requirements and 84 per cent of its natural gas, so the government is limited in its ability to take a swipe at the profits of commodity producers, writes Chris Bryant...
...Dominic Bryant, an economist at BNP Paribas, sees the collapse of residential investment lasting several years. “Spain will be flirting with recession during 2008 and 2009,” he predicts....
International Edition