Spain's finance minister predicts downturn

MADRID (MarketWatch) -- Spain's newly appointed Economics Minister, Luis de Guindos, said Monday that the country will see negative economic growth in the final quarter of 2011 and the first quarter of the new year, technically putting it back into recession.

2011: Year that changed the world

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Will in the Middle

Rome’s influence on Shakespeare, and Shakespeare’s on Verdi.


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Van Gogh - The Life - By Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith - Book Review

A speculative biography suggests that Vincent van Gogh might have been murdered.


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WE, THE DROWNED By Carsten Jensen Translated from the Danish by Charlotte Barslund with Emma Ryder Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 678 pp. $28 When was the last time you relished sitting down with a 678-page Danish novel? "We, the Drowned" might just be too much book to tote to the beach next summer, ...
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