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...All the big-hitters are here — a new and presumably epic production of Aida, Zeffirelli’s Carmen and Madama Butterfly, a “pyrotechnic” Il Barbiere di Siviglia and gala events with Plácido Domingo and Jonas...
...When Carmen Miranda moved to the US in 1939, Brazil’s most popular singer adopted a blend of Portuguese and English in songs....
...The gap between arts and industry is portrayed in the tension between the practical Henry Wilcox and the artistic Schlegel sisters in EM Forster’s 1910 novel Howards End....
...Carmen Yulín Cruz’s voice fills with dread as she unlocks the door....
...Mr Trump’s comments were met with scorn by Carmen Yulin Cruz, the mayor of San Juan, who said he was “unhinged from reality” and had zero respect for the people of Puerto Rico, a US territory in the Caribbean...
...The human toll of Hurricane Maria on Puerto Rico may have been far higher than official data recognises....
...Meanwhile, the president responded to pleas for assistance from Carmen Yulin Cruz, the mayor of San Juan, by accusing her of “such poor leadership” and saying that “they want everything to be done for them...
...The main target of Mr Trump’s online fire has been the mayor of San Juan, Carmen Yulín Cruz, who issued a plea for help on Friday in which she criticised the US federal government’s response to the hurricane...
...“The Puerto Rico and the San Juan that we knew yesterday is no longer there,” a tearful Carmen Yulin Cruz, mayor of San Juan, told NBC News on Wednesday night....
...“The Puerto Rico and the San Juan than we knew yesterday is no longer there,” a tearful Carmen Yulin Cruz, mayor of San Juan, told NBC News on Wednesday night....
...Mr Trump angered Puerto Ricans at the weekend when he used Twitter to criticise the mayor of San Juan, Carmen Yulín Cruz, for issuing a plea for help....
...(FT, WSJ) Trump visits Puerto Rico Donald Trump is to visit Puerto Rico to survey damage from Hurricane Maria....
...But the evidence says the opposite: Carmen Reinhart and Cristoph Trebesch have shown that a definitive sovereign debt writedown is associated with higher growth (which itself would require less austerity...
...So perhaps the best preparatory reading for 2016 is Carmen Reinhart’s op-ed predicting a year of sovereign defaults. That is where the long saga of Puerto Rico is ending, to mention only one case....
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