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What accounts for such extreme behavior? Traditional rivalries, for one thing, have long mirrored societal rifts. Glasgow Celtic fans are Catholic, and Rangers fans are Protestant. In Rome it was communist vs. fascist; in Madrid nationalist vs. Catalan or Basque. Yet as those old markers fade, the violence seems to continue, fueled by little more than alcohol and malice...
...Whishaw does attract attention. He gets vamped by every woman from his flirtatious mom to Ophelia (Samantha Whittaker), dressed in schoolgirl plaids and played as a sexually precocious teeny-bopper who needs Hamlet as much as he needs his own onanistic misery. He stretches in his chair like a Catalan death puppet, and often holds his head as if it would split from shame or rage. He might implode to suicide or explode into fury. He is, in other words, your basic melancholy teen, believing that no adult can comprehend the misery he is undergoing just by being alive...
...professional soccer challenging some of the traditional bases of identification with the game. While fans treat the game as a tableux enactment of ancient tribal battles, the "actors" are often of foreign origin whose wanderings might have them, within a year, being hailed as champions of the Basque or Catalan cause, or the class rivalries of Milan, or some other oblique issue. They're simply professionals marketing their skills to the highest bidder in the increasingly globalized world of international soccer...
...clubs. So, while the fans treat the game as a tableux enactment of ancient tribal battles, the "actors" are Dutchmen, Georgians, Danes, Brazilians, Portuguese, Swedes, Frenchmen, Guineans, Ivorians, Bulgarians and others whose professional wanderings might have them, within a year, being hailed as champions of the Basque or Catalan cause, or the class rivalries of Milan, or some other oblique cause. They're simply professionals marketing their skills to the highest bidder in the increasingly globalized world of international soccer...
...alleged motive: fears that evidence of al-Qaeda involvement would drive the electorate - which bitterly opposed Spain's support for the Iraq war - to vote for the Socialists in elections on March 14. "We are faced with two versions," says Jordi Jané, a representative of the moderate Catalan nationalist CiU party. "A police version and a political version. The police had discounted ETA by Friday morning, while the government - though it opened a second line of investigation into an Islamic attack - continued to blame ETA." Whom will Spaniards believe? The Socialists (PSOE) contend that voters answered that question...