Spanish Forum: After the iceberg,
Appetites
The salad season has arrived, and for most of us that means tossing a variety of lettuce leaves in a good vinaigrette, and adding anything from the list of rocket, watercress, endive, olives, herbs, nuts, tomato, cucumber, capsicum, spring onions, beetroot, avocado and even apple, shredded carrot and cooked potato. This type of salad will always remain a mainstay of an Australian summer meal, particularly when served alongside barbecued meats or as a light, refreshing lunch. However, some...
Spanish Forum: BILINGUAL CANDIDATE FORUM PLANNED
DELTONA -- Candidates in local races will get an opportunity to stump for votes at an English-Spanish forum after all.The Bilingual Political Forum will be from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the Deltona Community Center, 980 Lakeshore Drive. The event, originally planned earlier this month, was rescheduled because of Hurricane Charley.Organized by the Volusia County Hispanic Association, the forum is designed to reach out to Spanish-speaking and bilingual voters.It will be the...
AOL DROPS ENGLISH RULE,
SOCCER FANS SCORE WIN WITH
SPANISH FORUM
America Online, the nation's largest on-line service, reversed a week-old English-only rule in a soccer discussion forum after angry Spanish-speaking subscribers called it racist and threatened to cancel. Many of the regulars in the forum are from countries where soccer verges on a religion, and they flooded AOL with irate e-mail messages complaining that their Spanish postings were being deleted as quickly as they wrote them. A Californian, Marcelo Rossetti, led a protest....
Spanish Forum: Viewers frown on anchor humor Jeanne Jakle
Viewers frown on anchor humor Jeanne Jakle Anchorwoman Debora Daniels announced on KMOL-TV's news the other night that Julian Churches was in town. Who? Turns out Deb was putting a different twist on Tuesday's visit to San Antonio by superstar crooner Julio Iglesias by translating his name into English. Kind of cute, huh? At least some folks thought so. But as is normally the case with news-time attempts at humor, you can't...
Spanish Forum: Chinese president hold talks with Spanish foreign minister
Beijing, 19 December: Chinese President Hu Jintao said here Friday [19 December] China is ready to join efforts with Spain to push bilateral relations to a new level in the new century.Hu made the remarks during a meeting with Ana Palacio, Spanish foreign minister, Juan Antonio Samaranch, former chairman of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), and other Spanish officials attending the Sino-Spanish forum held in Beijing.Hu said the forum has built a new bridge of friendly...