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		<title>Las Tres Chimeneas</title>
		<link>http://www.barcelonascene.com/2009/12/culture/chimneys-photo-essay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:45:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The chimney stacks of the Sant Adrià de Besòs power plant are hard to miss.  Any sunbather lolling away a lazy Sunday afternoon on one of the beaches stretching northwards from Barceloneta will inevitably have the three bronzed spires looming over his or her shoulder, casting their silhouettes across the sand like some gigantic sun dial counting off the weekend’s dwindling hours.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Piqué rises above the fray</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:26:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gerard Piqué has got it.  FC Barcelona’s 22-year-old fullback has got that special something that makes everyone from a gaggle of pimply teenage girls right down to a pack of cigar-chewing socis simply swoon.  He has not even broken a sweat winning over the unanimous acclaim from the Catalan sports press and the legions of culés who take turns hailing him as Carles Puyol’s heir apparent or declaring him the reincarnation of the legendary German defender Franz Beckenbauer.  And while there is nothing at all shocking about Barcelona’s infatuation with ...]]></description>
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		<title>Corrupters and their noms de guerre</title>
		<link>http://www.barcelonascene.com/2009/10/politics/corrupters-and-their-noms-de-guerre/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With corruption scandals erupting across Spain like a bad case of acne, angry taxpayers are all coming to the same conclusion; if in addition to walking and quacking like a sleazy conman, it also goes by the name of a sleazy conman, then in all likelihood you are dealing with a sleazy conman.
The biggest pimple to burst (and it is still oozing) is el caso Gürtel that has implicated major players in the Partido Popular from Valencia to Madrid in a web of shell companies and multimillion euro kickbacks (even ...]]></description>
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		<title>The byproducts of abortion politics</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:55:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Abortion is synonymous with controversy all across the globe.  Well, perhaps everywhere except in post-human France and in the social paradise called Scandinavia, but in Spain the debate has boiled up in recent weeks and brought out more than one episode of extreme behavior, suspicious dealings and even the downright oddball.

Before getting to the good stuff, it is worth setting the scene.  The Spanish government has proposed to alter the standing abortion law to allow women to freely choose to abort in the first 14 weeks of a pregnancy, a time period that can be extended up to 22 weeks in the case of fetal deformity or risk to the mother’s health.]]></description>
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		<title>Reina robbed by the ricochet</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:17:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pepe Reina seems to be cursed.  Not exactly in a bad way.  Just a very weird way.   Not only was he actually hit by a Real Madrid fan during a game in the Bernabéu way back when he still had hair in 2001, but now he is victim of surely the oddest goal ever witnessed in the Premier League when the introduction of a bouncing red ball converted the pitch into a bumperpool table.

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		<title>The return of Copito</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Copito de Nieve, who passed away in 2003 after 37 years as Barcelona’s de facto mascot and most beloved captive, will soon be immortalized in an animated film and cartoon TV series.  The Catalan producer Filmax has announced plans to bring the story of the world’s only recorded albino gorilla to the silver screen in a mixture of 3D animation and real images.  Production on the movie is set to begin in November.
According to El País, the film’s plot will revolve around a young Copito’s quest to drink a magical ...]]></description>
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		<title>Rajoy and Aguirre battle for the Green Bear</title>
		<link>http://www.barcelonascene.com/2009/10/politics/rajoy-aguirre-battle-for-green-bear/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh Mariano, why won’t your women just leave you alone and let you get on with your job of telling the world how bad Spain’s economy is under a PSOE government while trying not to look too happy about how the nation is going down the gutter.
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But no, they just can’t let a chance to question your manhood slip by.  First it was Nebrera’s adéu, and now it is Esperanza Aguirre’s turn to step out of line.  The president of the Comunidad de Madrid is once again putting Rajoy’s credibility as head of the Partido Popular to the test.  The subject of the dispute is none other than the control of Caja Madrid, Spain’s fourth largest financial institution.
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		<title>Nebrera to Rajoy, &#8220;Kiss it goodbye&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.barcelonascene.com/2009/10/politics/nebrera-to-rajoy-kiss-it-goodbye/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Partido Popular has got to be the Dallas (as in J.R.&#8217;s, not Jerry Jones&#8217;s) of the Spanish political scene. It is by far the best political show in the country, unless, that is, you like a bunch of bitter men in tweeds grumbling about one another incessantly, and then you can do no better than Esquerra.  But if you can&#8217;t get enough of treachery, corruption, and yes, ladies, or at least, one lady who is rather easy on the eye, then the PP has been where it&#8217;s at for ...]]></description>
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		<title>Mendoza goes small</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:18:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Novelist Eduardo Mendoza, one of the brave few who are not afraid to mix philosophy with faecal-based humour, is finally publishing a book of short stories.  Having written God knows how many novels &#8212; Sin noticias de Gurb, La aventura del tocador de mujeres, El asombroso viaje de Pomponio Flato (to choose the raunchiest ones, each populated with slightly different versions of his standard Torrente-esque anti-hero) &#8211;, newspaper columns in El País, and even a play for the theater- Restauració- in Catalan, he now gives us Tres vidas de santos, ...]]></description>
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