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...Europeans of her generation Cruz is on the move, leaving her homeland to further her career but retaining a strong connection to her Spanish roots. Cruz identifies Spain as her home - she's one of three children of a hairdresser mama and a retailer papa and grew up in Madrid - but she calls herself a "citizen of the world...
...were so tough, the teachers. You'd say, 'Excuse me, I'm bleeding.' They'd say, 'Smile!' " She later took the same dedication to acting classes and signed with an agent at age 14. "She was still pretty green as an actress," says Katrina Bayonas, who discovered Cruz in Madrid and now acts as her manager, "but she had great commitment and was studying...
...Mother (both won Oscars in the Best Foreign Film category) brought American producers and directors courting, she always knew that "I wasn't done with Spain." With Vanilla Sky completed, she'll return to her birthplace to make her next movie. Cruz explains: "My home's still in Madrid. I love the way people take time for themselves. They work hard. But they have time for their friends and time for silence...
...continuing the magazine's distinguished photojournalistic tradition - with a distinctly European focus. "For me the challenge was to know my magazine," says Durrant. "And to make sure the photographers understood it as well." He more than met the challenge, organizing photographs and photographers from Jutland to Johannesburg, Moscow to Madrid. As he says: "I make sure the right picture gets on the right page at the right time...
...dealing with the Israelis. Otherwise, he will never persuade them to give the Palestinians what they want. Many Palestinians believe their fortunes will improve only when Arafat's domination of their affairs ends. "Democracy is needed," says Haider Abdel Shafi, who headed the Palestinian team at the Madrid Peace Conference. "Arafat will never admit that he made a mistake. He will simply blame Israeli aggression...