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...Grand Slam event since Pete Sampras took the U.S. Open in 1990, stays low-key when not crushing a ball. "A dream came true for me in Paris, but I will remain the same person," Nadal tells TIME. "It would be stupid to change." Raised on the island of Majorca, Nadal has athleticism in his blood. His uncle Miguel Angel, dubbed el Carnicero (the Butcher), was a bruising defender on Spain's national soccer team. Another uncle, Toni, taught natural righty Nadal to play tennis left-handed, a serving advantage, but his serve still needs work. "Rafa" has Toni...
...While Murphy hasn't met Utzon, 76, who lives as a virtual recluse on the Spanish island of Majorca, he knows the architect inside out. Having catalogued the Utzon archive at the State Library of New South Wales, in 1994 he co-curated an exhibition of Utzon's proposed interiors (as breathtaking as the exterior, the two halls were to echo waves of sound with the world's longest sheets of plywood). Ten years on, the cleverly executed and conceived "Studio of J?rn Utzon" succeeds in getting inside the architect's head. "The Opera House is really the embodiment...
Shoemaker—en route to Palma de Majorca, Spain, for the World Intercollegiate Championships on July 3, at which she finished 21st—missed a connecting flight to the island from the mainland despite arriving at the terminal with time to spare, thanks to her airline’s unfamiliar ticketing and boarding procedure. Waiting at the wrong counter until just after her scheduled flight finished boarding, the Crimson freestyle swimmer was left to jockey for a standby seat, which, after two failed attempts—and seven hours—wasn’t materializing...
...runner-up showing qualified her for the World Intercollegiate Championships tomorrow in Palma de Majorca, Spain. But despite her almost immediate success, the leap from swimming to triathlon was neither easy nor without its beneficial strokes of luck along...
...payments controversy was only the latest in a string of accusations against Scharping, a former leader of the Social Democratic party (SPD) who ran unsuccessfully against Chancellor Helmut Kohl in 1994. Last summer, Scharping came under severe criticism when photographs were published showing him and his girlfriend cavorting in Majorca at a time when German troops were beginning a dangerous deployment in Macedonia. Scharping was also criticized for using military planes to fly back and forth to Majorca to consult about the German army deployment. But the controversy was overshadowed when terrorists attacked New York and Washington on Sept...