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Los dioses mueren en...

por Mario Vargas Llosa

Tal vez la música de Wagner nos acerque más al diablo y al infierno que a Dios y al cielo, pero, no hay duda, gracias a ella salimos de la vida cotidiana. Es siempre una revelación y una catarsis

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"Digging" for a new history

At the NY Times

The clock had just struck midnight. Most of the country was asleep. But that did not stop President Hugo Chávez from announcing in the early hours of July 16 that the latest phase of his Bolivarian Revolution had been stirred into motion. 

Marching to the national anthem, a team of soldiers, forensic specialists and presidential aides gathered around the sarcophagus of Simón Bolívar, the 19th-century aristocrat who freed much of South America from Spain. A state television crew filmed the group, clad in white lab coats, hair nets and ventilation masks, attempt what seemed like an anemic half-goose step.

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Is Marathon boring...?

Recently I spotted an interesting -- and oddly satisfying -- article in the Wall Street Journal. In this article, titled 11 Minutes of Action, the writer determines that "There's very little actual football in a football game."

To be specific, the article states, "the average amount of time the ball is in play on the field during an NFL game is about 11 minutes."

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