is apparently what has been decided at a big-name forum that's just taken place in NY, convened to compare the experiences of Madrid after the March 11 attacks with those of New York after Sept. 11 and featuring (on the Spanish side) lawyer Baltasar Garzón, a kind of Hispanic Elliot Ness, and philosopher Josep Ramoneda. A bit too much expensive blathering that you suspect won't come to much, but at least Paul Berman apparently made a few feisty, provocative comments, and it's good to see that Spain and the US are on speaking terms again after the withdrawal of Spanish troops from Iraq.
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