MADRID — Spain's already fragile banking sector was shocked Thursday by the news that Emilio Botín, the country's most influential banker and chairman of Banco Santander, and 11 of his relatives were the subjects of an investigation into tax evasion stretching back to accounts that ostensibly were opened during the dark days of the Spanish Civil War.
The McGuffin of Jean-Luc Godard's new film, "Film Socialisme" (which opens this Friday), is the vast store of gold that the Spanish Republicans shipped to the Soviet Union in 1936, ostensibly for safekeeping during the civil war (of course, it never came back), and, in particular, the batch of it that disappeared en route to Odessa.
PAGE A28 BUSINESS Top Banker in Spain Faces Inquiry Spain's already fragile banking sector was shocked by the news that Emilio Bot? the country's most influential banker and chairman of Banco Santander, and 11 of his relatives were the subjects of an investigation into tax evasion stretching back to accounts that ostensibly were opened during the dark days of the Spanish Civil War.
In the past, the North Koreans have requested and received money in exchange for the release of foreign detainees, ostensibly to cover accommodations during their involuntary confinement.
After more than a month of rest, Lindros began skating but suffered a setback, ostensibly from a collision during a workout with minor league players.
I am in New York, ostensibly on a sabbatical, during which I intended to rattle off a 400-page thriller and maybe have a romcom-style meet-cute in Central Park.
The data collected by medical professionals from the interrogations of detainees allowed the C.I.A. to judge the emotional and physical impact of the techniques, helping the agency to "calibrate the level of pain experienced by detainees during interrogation, ostensibly to keep it from crossing the administration's legal threshold of what it claimed constituted torture," the report said.
The 10 to 15percentt of Jewish voters who are ostensibly up for grabs during this presidential election will not be moved by videos like "Buyer's Remorse" alone.
This exhilarating period piece (which will have its premiere Sunday at 9 p.m. Eastern) is ostensibly culled from footage shot during the mid-1990s.
In pre-Chinese Tibet, regents took control after the death of a Dalai Lama and ostensibly for an interim period during the childhood of his reincarnation.
