... later is like asking the poor to make gifts to the rich." Roberto Calvo Macias, a Spanish author and thinker, once wrote that it is impossible to ... ...oyees sold in the open market food, blankets, and medical supplies intended for the refugees. Q. How can one choose between good and bad NGOs? A....

...ble Melville Jocelyn, the diplomate; and the Count and Countess de Saldar, refugees out of that explosive little kingdom. 26 Evan Harrington CHAPTER ... ...t. For instance, there was the Portuguese Marquis de Col. He had married a Spanish wife, whose end was mysterious. Undressing, on the night of the ann... ...adept Countess, he threw off his moodiness as easily as if it had been his Spanish mantle, and assumed a gaiety that made the Countess’s eyes beam rap...

...at the time of the siege of T roy, proving that the Etruscans were T rojan refugees in Italy.” This was the President’s cumbrous way of joking; the sh... ...tinguishable among the others for a certain dash that artists call flafla; Spanish wreaths in bold relief; Flemings and Germans with quaint figures, t...

...n and children sexually assaulted in the convention center where many of the refugees huddled. Later, it would turn out that many, perhaps most, of th... ...derivative work out of “My Life.” The person who translated my articles into Spanish or Mandarin, or the people who re- post them on their Web sites, ...

...s died by the thousands, but the Arabs singled out from among the fleeing refugees a number of Chinese papermakers. Taken prisoner and led back to S... ...rtists, and literati.  Sanctuaries for foreign translators, émigrés, and refugees.  Institutions of advanced learning.  Focal points for every ... ...century.  Because it threatened to obviate the need to master mnemonics, Spanish poet Jorge Manrique (c. 1440–1479) decried the coming of printed b... ...e English language. In the 1580s, just before the English destroyed the Spanish Armada, Spaniards proudly proclaimed: ―El sol nunca fija en el Imp... ...for Mandarin Chinese and about equal to the numbers of native speakers of Spanish and Hindustan. Yet many believe that the number of native and n...

... old sea-dog might have welcomed the sight of the enemy’s topsails off the Spanish Main. There, at least, he seems to say, is some- thing obvious to b... ...Geneva, as minister, jointly with Goodman, of a little church of En- glish refugees. He and his congregation were banished from England by one woman, ... ...om him in a private conversation; and Knox had his little flock of English refugees to consider. If they had fallen into bad odour at Geneva, where el... ...ic. What need? He has been confounded by facts. “Thus what had been to the refugees of Geneva as the very word of God, no sooner were they back in Eng...

... Pakistan home to an enormous—and generally unwelcome—population of Afghan refugees; and since the badly strained Pakistani education system could not... ... the badly strained Pakistani education system could not accommo- date the refugees, the government increasingly let privately funded religious school... ...nt press reports to the contrary, there is no convincing evidence that the Spanish al Qaeda cell, led by Imad Barkat Yarkas and al Qaeda European fina... ...sociate Mamoun Darkazanli—see, e.g., FBI letterhead memorandum,Y arkas and Spanish Cell investigation, Jan. 8, 2003—but there is no evidence that Zoua... ...ed evidence that anyone met with Atta or Binalshibh in Spain in July 2001, Spanish investigators contend that members of the Spanish al Qaeda cell wer... ... meet- ing and were connected to the 9/11 attacks. In an indictment of the Spanish cell members dated September 17, 2003, the Spanish government relie... ...deotaped a number of U.S. landmarks, including the W orld Trade Center.The Spanish indictment alleges that an al Qaeda courier was in Ghalyoun’s town ...