Greg Stemm, Odyssey’s co-founder A deep sea treasure-hunting company has been ordered by a US judge to hand over half a million gold and silver coins to the government of Spain. The company, Odyssey Marine Exploration, raised the haul from a shipwreck in the Atlantic, suspected to be that of a Spanish naval vessel. The [...]
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Let’s be friends
Posted in Conflicts and wars, Editorials and opinion, French, Politics, Spanish on June 4, 2009 |
Barack Obama delivers a convincing speech to Muslims around the world “WE AWAIT your arrival impatiently because we admire your noble principles and lofty virtues,” gushed an open letter from Sheikh Ali Yusuf, a Muslim cleric who, long ago, was Egypt’s most popular columnist. Printed in an Arabic daily, it went on to express hope [...]
Gender confusion
Posted in Language, Spanish, tagged Latina, Latino on June 3, 2009 |
“The Howls of a Fading Species” read the headline of Bob Herbert’s column in yesterday’s New York Times. Oddly enough, it is not a sob-sister environmental story. The “fading species” is “right-wingers.” Some of them are saying unkind things about Judge Sonia Sotomayor, and as a result, Herbert hopes they die off. Typical Herbert fare, [...]
Mexico’s “Holy Death” Cult Says Is Drug War Victim
Posted in Law, Living, Photo galleries, Religion, Spanish, tagged Santa muerte on April 10, 2009 |
Followers of Mexico’s “Saint Death” cult figure, revered by thieves and drug runners but also law-abiding housewives, say their faith is being persecuted by the government’s war against drug cartels. Dozens of worshipers marched through Mexico City on Good Friday, many barefoot and showing off tattoos of the macabre cult figure, in the latest of [...]
