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...Grand Tour Spanish superstars Real Madrid flew to Asia last summer on a publicity tour, shortly after signing David Beckham (above), the game's highest-earning player and Asia's favorite footballer. The team posed for gaggles of screaming fans, beat some lumbering local teams?and flew home more than $12 million richer, thanks to record sales of team jerseys and to fans like the 44,000 in Tokyo who paid $27 each to watch practice...
MARRIED. SPANISH CROWN PRINCE FELIPE, 36, and former TV anchorwoman LETIZIA ORTIZ, 31, the first commoner ever in line to be the Queen of Spain; in Spain's first royal wedding since 1906; in Madrid...
...appearance in Britain, he interviewed Real Madrid soccer player David Beckham and his wife, Posh Spice Victoria Beckham, in a burgundy leather suit with the words “Save Africa” written on the back just above a map of Italy...
...postindustrial age has been tough on railfans. First the majestic steam locomotives disappeared. Then juries started giving huge awards to people hurt on the tracks, and railroads grew hostile toward trespassers. Now comes terrorism. Railroads upped security after 9/11, but since the March bombing of four trains in Madrid, commuters have been more worried. "Anyone seen taking photographs is going to be questioned," laments Richard Maloney, spokesman for SEPTA, Philadelphia's public-transit authority. "The wide-open spaces and the freedom we have enjoyed to meander almost anywhere is gone." Urban train buffs report being surrounded by police cars...
...award, since they were shown out of competition: Pedro Almodóvar's Bad Education and Zhang Yimou's House of Flying Daggers. Almodóvar, after the consecutive masterpieces All About My Mother and Talk to Her, plunges into film noir territory with a melodrama about a Madrid schoolboy molested by a priest in the '60s. The theme of child abuse could be treated soberly - and was, in a half a dozen or more Cannes films this year - but that wouldn't suit Almodóvar's cine-showmanship. The story spins backward four times before landing...