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Indeed, Madrid, like the former site of sorrow and destruction, seems as vibrant and glistening as ever. When I arrived, the city had just celebrated the marriage of the crown prince Felipe of Borbon to, in the term used by the Spanish press, the plebeyana—plebian—Letizia Ortiz. The happy couple’s glossy faces shone from every gossip magazine, and commemorative plates, cookies, stemware and t-shirts stood proudly in every store window. Was this just a fairytale dream to sustain the masses that, braving a late-spring rain shower, crowded the streets...
...crown prince, however, has stepped away from tradition and towards modernity: rather than choose another plain virginal princess from an inbred royal family—as his father did when he chose the regal Sofia of Greece, who has produced some ugly, slightly deranged princesses—Felipe elected a modern woman, divorced, in her thirties and with a firm head on her shoulders (she was a successful journalist before assuming her current role as Princesa de Asturias...
...open the door of pardon ... to anyone who deviated from the right path and committed a crime in the name of religion." CROWN PRINCE ABDULLAH BIN ABDUL AZIZ AL SAUD of Saudi Arabia, offering a partial amnesty to Islamic militants who turn themselves in to the government in the wake of a rising number of terrorist attacks in the kingdom...
...merely to run a church. A partial list of her achievements includes moderator of two different presbyteries (the equivalent of dioceses); trustee at the denomination's McCormick Theological Seminary; and winner of the journal Lectionary Homiletics' Preacher of the Year award for 2000. But the jewel in Andrews' extrapastoral crown came 11 months ago, when she was elected moderator of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). As she describes the position, "You're the ambassador of the denomination for one year. You become the face, voice and heart of the church." She is the first female pastor to hold...
...coach to win an NBA championship but also the first to win a title in college and the pros. (As the coach of the U.S. Olympic team, he goes for the trifecta in Athens this summer.) But it took a union with Dumars to give the itinerant coach his crown. And the ex-Piston bad boy, who helped Detroit win back-to-back championships as a player in 1989 and '90, made history of his own, becoming the first African-American GM to craft an NBA champion...