Spain’s Quiros surprises by dialing up long distance
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- Spain’s Quiros surprises by dialing up long distance
- Spain’s Economy Shrinks Again
- The Discovery of Spain: Goya to Picasso
Spain’s Quiros surprises by dialing up long distance
USA Today
Alvaro Quiros a 26-year-old from Spain who draws crowds at the driving range was the guilty party using his driver for both shots. Woods and Harrington were so impressed they weren’t even upset.
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Spain’s Economy Shrinks Again
New York Times
The statistics stood in contrast to data Thursday showing stronger-than-expected performances by the French and German economies each of which grew 0. 3 percent in the second quarter from the first quarter. Within the euro area France and Germany are helping balance out weaker performances in Italy a perpetual laggard and Spain where a collapsing housing market and rising unemployment have brought an acute recession. Economists remain guarded about the potential strength of the rebound across the region and the release of the Spanish data Friday reinforced that caution. Nick Kounis chief European economist at Fortis Bank in Amsterdam said the prospect remained for a gradual recovery in Europe into 2010 with Germany and France being helped in the near term by the global recovery and fiscal incentives especially for car sales. ther countries whose economies are more dependent on household consumption rather than exports and manufacturing like Spain Ireland and the Netherlands are lagging he said. “It’s a gradual recovery story rather than a robust V-shaped rebound” he said of the euro zone.
The Discovery of Spain: Goya to Picasso
guardian.co.uk
To see this portrait is to feel the live connection between artist and sitter. To learn how it came to be in Britain is to sense the close connection between art and war. Joseph Bonaparte stole it from the Spanish court during Napoleon’s invasion of Spain; Wellington’s troops found it rolled in the baggage of the fleeing French after the Battle of Vitoria. Wellington tried to return it; a grateful Spain refused. Which is how it comes to reside at Apsley House Wellington’s home otherwise known as No 1 London. This star-studded show of Spanish art in British collections is full of such piercing crosscurrents and encounters. Goya paints Wellington frail and dazed with a look of wide-eyed exhaustion.
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