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Spain's big bull run hit hard by economic gloom

PAMPLONA, Spain – Thousands of thrillseekers will race ahead of pounding hooves at the famed running of the bulls beginning Tuesday in Pamplona, but Spain 's most storied fiesta is being overshadowed by a crisis in the bullring. Grim economic times are sending a chill through the national pastime for the second year in a row, putting a damper on Pamplona's weeklong party. And just days after it ends Sunday, a proposed regional bullfighting ban could be approved in another part of ...