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6/6/04
There’s thunder in Madrid tonight, and each crack brings me to other times and places. The rain started while I was standing in the kitchen, doing the weekend’s dishes, and I, for a moment, was home in Ohio, washing the dishes, staring out into what would have been the rain spotted pond in front of [...]

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6/6/04
There’s thunder in Madrid tonight, and each crack brings me to other times and places. The rain started while I was standing in the kitchen, doing the weekend’s dishes, and I, for a moment, was home in Ohio, washing the dishes, staring out into what would have been the rain spotted pond in front of [...]

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Two weeks ago I called Steve and suggested that we head over to the Corte Ingles in Serrano and meet Ex-President Aznar. It was fun well worth our time and Steve thanked me for keeping my ears open and getting us to the event.
Today, Steve called me and told me that Richard Clarke was in [...]

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Time to start anew. As we anxiously await the departure of Bush, and a new begining for America’s 21st century, I look back to what brought us the last “great years” - The Clintonian Years.
How did we know they would be good? “A rock, a river, a tree…”Much of what was said in the timeless [...]

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When I get back to the States, I will charge 5 bucks to shake my hand.
Yesterday I went with my good friend Steve to the Corte Ingles in Serrano, in the pijo barrio of Salamanca. There, we bought the new book, shook the hand of, and took our pictures with José María Aznar: Spain’s ex-President [...]

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For the second day in a row, I was at the Madrid-Barajas airport bright and early. Yesterday I was there to see my cousin Alex and grandmother Norma off after their two-week stay in Spain. Today it was to say goodbye to my friend, and faithful study abroad companion, Evan.
Today’s blog is dedicated to him.On [...]

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It really was one of those moments that passes and then only days later you can believe. This is what happened when, on Friday night while hanging out with my visiting cousin Alex and my buddy Evan at the Calle Puebla apartement, Willy walked in with his girlfriend Silvina after a long night working.
I hadn’t [...]

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All over the Spanish news today are “noticias” of something than should not go unrecognized in the news around the world.
WE TURNED 25!
Poland, The Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, more and more!The Europeanization of Europe has been in the works for some time now, but getting many of these former Soviet-Bloc counties this far and [...]

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11-M
(from a letter to my mother)
I understand that many may feel worried or indescribably preoccupied right now, not only with me being here in Spain right now, but also with what generally is seen as “what this world is up to.” And I am too, but not for being here. Yes, there was a scare, [...]

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Foto del día:

Graff in Politics Facultad

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