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...Miriam l Betz Biblioteca de Menéndez Pelayo, Santander This library holds 41,500 titles from the collection of the 19th-century Spanish intellectual Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo, who “donated the collection...
...I contacted Telmo Rodríguez, Spain’s greatest large-scale artisanal winemaker, to ask if he’d create something for us at the £1-a-bottle ex-cellar price then common for the category. “My god, Dan!...
...“This was an election fought in bars,” said Camino Mortera-Martinez, of the Centre for European Reform, who thinks it would be hard to replicate elsewhere in Spain, let alone in Europe....
...Shaheen ValléeDirector of the Geoeconomics Programme, DGAP Philipp HeimbergerVienna Institute for International Economic Studies Dirk BezemerProfessor, Faculty of Economics, University of Groningen L...
...They were selling slowly a year ago and now have almost stopped,” says José Carlos León of Nvoga estate agents. “There’s no demand for them.”...
...José Carlos Rodríguez, Cuba’s ambassador to Rome, separately said earlier this week that services to Italy had been given free of charge and rejected allegations of political motivation....
...Mr Martínez — not his real name — is a “coyote”....
...Did she have any sympathy, she is asked, for her hapless lover José, who is jilted and betrayed by her capricious ways? She perfectly synchronises a weary eye-roll and a shrug. “Not really....
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...Unless something is done, Mr Rodríguez warns, the scarcity of basic goods will drastically worsen and fuel “major social tensions”....
...Mexico has other important cheerleaders, including José Abed, a vice-president of the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile, world motorsport’s governing body....
...The leaders of the two countries, Portuguese prime minister Jose Socrates, and Spanish PM José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, have now made their cases to Fifa, with predictably dull speeches....
...The Ballet Nacional de España was installed at the Coliseum on Tuesday as the final offering in that theatre’s Spring Dance season – an event, save for the glories of Mark Morris’s L’Allegro, of varied and...
...José Martinez looks like an elongated Massine but, unlike the great man, projects the personality of The Miller no further than the orchestra pit....
...In “Portrait of Juan Martínez Montañés”, Velázquez daringly depicts the sculptor at work on an unfinished bust of Philip IV....
...It’s deeply ironic that the Spanish vintner José Manuel Ortega wasn’t much of a drinker when he first started buying wine in the early 1990s....
...“Stick Work (Angelo Martinez/Richfield, Kansas)” (2008) shows a grain silo in America’s Great Plains, which is gradually being painted black by a builder, one neat square metre per day....
...José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, the Socialist prime minister, failed to inflict any financial pain at all on civil servants or other employed Spaniards when the crisis was supposedly at its worst this year...
...When a soccer player falls à la Rodríguez, everyone enjoys the spectacle but nobody is shocked....
...Business people in the city, along with their counterparts in Madrid or Bilbao, believe that the government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, the Socialist prime minister, should use the crisis to push through...
...José Maria da Fonseca, Periquita 2004 Terras do Sado £4.99 Waitrose A fruity classic from just south of Lisbon. Great value and personality....
...THE MESSIAH MYTH: The Near Eastern Rootsof Jesus and Davidby Thomas L....
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