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...Italy (4-1). According to promoters, it took only one hour for Man U to sell out its Aug. 3 game against Barcelona at Philadelphia's Lincoln Financial Field. Likewise for its Giants Stadium appearance against Juventus. All this without the flamboyantly blond David Beckham, auctioned off to Real Madrid earlier this summer for $40 million. How to explain this phenomenon in a country where the resident pro league often struggles for attention? "Man U has a huge draw from [Americans] who have only come to soccer lately," says Jim Trecker of ChampionsWorld, the New Jersey promoter of the team...
...son’s fiancee with Valium-laced gazpacho. The plot complicates when her friend Candela falls in love with a Shiite terrorist and hides out at Pepa’s home. Then she meets Ivan’s son, Carlos (Antonio Banderas). The 1988 Spanish comedy, filmed in Madrid, is irresistible. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown screens Monday, August 4 at 9:30 p.m. and Tuesday, August...
...their vacation homes in the warm south. But even when the sun isn't shining, Europeans seem to be throwing themselves into fun and festivity with unprecedented zeal. Each weekend, central London is one great bacchanal. Cities that for reasons of politics or religion were once gloomily repressive--Madrid, say, or Dublin--now rock to the small hours. In Prague the foreign visitors who get talked about are not the earnest young Americans who flocked there in the early 1990s, but British partygoers who have flown in for the cheap beer and pretty girls. The place that British historian Mark...
...pattern, perhaps attributable to the rise of discount airlines. Horst W. Opaschowski, who heads Germany's Leisure Research Institute, says: "A second travel market of short trips and short distances is coming into being." Is this a good thing? In Spain, where the trend is similar if less marked, Madrid psychiatrist José Luis Carrasco Perera argues that tourists who substitute several short breaks for one sustained vacation "do not disengage sufficiently - the mind doesn't have time to forget the workplace." Alain de Botton, author of last year's The Art of Travel, agrees: "There's a huge advantage...
...side effect of fragmenting vacations is that many of Europe's big cities are no longer summer deserts. Madrid and Barcelona, for instance, only a decade ago looked neutron-bombed in August. Everything shut, everyone off to la playa or el pueblo. Today, many Madrileños and Barceloneses are rediscovering their cities in summer - and loving them. Noise levels plummet, there are parking spaces to pick from rather than pull knives over, many restaurants and shops stay open to cater to locals and people avoid the worst part of travel - the traveling itself. In Paris, they've gone...