EXACTLY TWO YEARS AGO, at a cocktail party, a staff member of the World Bank told me: "I think he is a murderer." "He" was Paul Wolfowitz, then just a week away from taking the helm at the world's biggest development agency. Many at the Bank thought the same way as my friend, who said some of his…

VISITING THE SPANISH HIGH COURT in Madrid, it is hard to escape the feeling that one has accidentally wandered into a neighborhood police station, instead of a national judicial body that makes headlines all over the world. From the outside, the High Court is an office building like any other in…

Juan Carlos

ARE THE SPANISH COWARDS? Or do they simply not grasp the nature of the war on terror?