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Focus: Literary Translation Featured Language: Spanish Walk, Run, Or Fly Make Plans Now to Attend the AMERICAN TRANSLATORS ASSOCIATION 42ND ANNUAL CONFERENCE The hronicle C A Publication of the American Translators Association VOLUME XXX • NUMBER 5 MAY 2001 Focus: Literary Translation Featured Language: Spanish Walk, Run, or Fly Make plans now to attend the AMERICAN TRANSLATORS ASSOCIATION 42ND ANNUAL CONFERENCE BILTMORE HOTEL • LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA OCTOBER 31 – NOVEMBER 3, 2001 See page 66 for complete registration, travel, and hotel information. Watch for detailed conference information in upcoming issues of the Chronicle and on ATA’s Website www.atanet.org The Features Chronicle Translation Quality is the Difference Between “March Madness” and A Publication of the American Translators Association the Craziness of March By Mercedes M. Pellet . 11 Volume XXX, Number 5 May 2001 Creating quality is difficult. 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