Word: cristianos
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...siblings unattended to dine with friends nearby. Since then, the McCanns have spearheaded a high-profile international campaign to find Madeleine. They have traveled across Europe and to the U.S., attended an audience with the Pope and roped in celebrities such as footballers David Beckham and Cristiano Ronaldo to keep the case in the public eye and encourage the police to redouble their efforts to find Madeleine. But by the time both submitted to lengthy interrogations by police late last week, the couple themselves had become the focus of the investigation...
...corner kick in a game in Italy's Serie A, or England's Premiership, you see defenders grabbing strikers in full nelsons, yanking their shirts, throwing elbows, pushing, kicking--and that's before the ball is put in play. In response, players such as Portugal's young sensation Cristiano Ronaldo have learned to dive and writhe on the ground the instant an opponent is within spitting range. Throw in trash talk, some of it outright racist in a Europe where African and Brazilian players flourish, and you can see why a player like Zidane might erupt...
...free kick, one of them deposed, it would be a tainted goal. In much the same way, a Press Association report on the semifinal between France and a Portuguese team accused of unfair tactics voted the French worthy winners on "moral terms." In the same game, the Portuguese player Cristiano Ronaldo, who was thought to have contributed to English striker Wayne Rooney's quarterfinal sending off, walked onto the pitch to a chorus of jeers. The air of moral seriousness that still underpins 21st century sports shouldn't surprise anybody with an eye for historical continuity. The administrative codes...
...show Toledo 's approval rating at less than 10%. MEANWHILE IN GERMANY ... Get Your Kit Off Two female Green Party politicians wrote to the German Football Association demanding that players not be penalized for taking off their shirts on the pitch. The pair were shocked to see Portugal 's Cristiano Ronaldo get yellow carded for baring his chest to celebrate scoring a goal against the Netherlands during Euro 2004, and launched a campaign on behalf of female fans keen to appreciate players' "athletic torsos." Purely from an aesthetic point of view, of course...
...early Spanish explorers of the Americas once called the creature amigo del cristiano, friend of the Christian--an odd name for a lion. That beneficent image was probably owing to Native American beliefs in the beast's role in maintaining harmony between heaven and humankind. The Chickasaw called the feline "the cat of God." And for centuries, puma concolor (a.k.a. mountain lion, cougar, panther, catamount) avoided people. It was an elusive presence: a tail vanishing into the bush, a distant snarl, the rare but startling...