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...Spain is everything you want in a champion. From goalkeeper Iker Casillas to strikers Torres and David Villa, Spain was superb in every area of the pitch, a paragon of possession, of knife-edge passing, and, for once, capable of imposing its style on everyone. The notable exception was the quarterfinal match with Italy, but that, too, marked this Spanish team as special - locked into a defensive mud-wrestling match, Spain resisted its historical urge to attack at any cost, even at the risk of committing the cardinal sin for a Spanish footballer: being boring. In its semifinal against Russia...
...outside and shut down anything coming up the middle. They so frustrated the normally dynamic Andrés Iniesta that he was pulled in the 59th minute along with his running mate Xavi Hernández. Yet it was Italy who got closest on the hour, when Spain keeper Iker Casillas made a left footed save on substitute Mauro Camoranesi after a goal mouth scramble...
...After a feckless overtime, the two teams squared off for penalties, and Spanish keeper Iker Casillas made great stops on Daniele De Rossi and Antonio Di Natale to claim the victory. "To be honest I think we deserved it," noted Casillas. To be honest, Iker, we didn't deserve to have to watch this mess...
...BEST SAVE Showing why he's rated as the world's best shot-stopper, German Oliver Kahn flung himself to the right to palm away an attempt by Korea's Lee Chun Soo in their tense semifinal match. Honorable Mention: Spaniard Iker Casillas's intercepts of the efforts by Ireland's David Connolly and Kevin Kilbane in the penalty shoot...
...team of 750 analysts and experts directed by the Federal Energy Administration. They employed a gigantic computer model to calculate the effects on energy use of a bewildering variety of supply, price and policy changes. The Blueprint will not be released until next month, but TIME Correspondent Samuel R. Iker has learned many of its details, and they contain some surprises...