a little bit of everything
The Other Me
by Mario Benedetti
He was a normal boy: his pants were baggy, he read comics, ate noisily, picked his nose, snored during naps, he was called Armando Normal in all except for one thing: he had Other Me.
The Other Me had poetry in his eyes, fell in love with actresses, lied cautiously, ...
En Español:
Soneto XXX
de Garcilaso de la Vega
Sospechas, que en mi triste fantasía
puestas, hacéis la guerra a mi sentido,
volviendo y revolviendo el afligido
pecho, con dura mano noche y día;
ya se acabó la resistencia mía
y la fuerza del alma; ya rendido
vencer de vos me dejo, arrepentido
de haberos contrastado ...
Is studying worth it? (2) Basic facts
by Samuel Bentolila
Apparently, many youths in this country think that “studying is a scam”, according to an article in El Confidencial. True or not, if young people believe it, we would be facing a serious problem. So, today I address once again last week’s question answered by Florentino ...
Medicare I
by Juan Rubio-Ramírez on 1 October 2010
One of the most important consequences of the recent crisis is that markets and rating agencies have shown themselves to be very sensitive to public deficits of western economies. Spanish debt has been downgraded from its highest rating and the same thing has happened with many economies ...
