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...support. Indeed, after spending centuries gazing lovingly across the Mediterranean to its stronghold on the Iberian peninsula, the Holy See now views Spain as a sad example of how the West was lost to the forces of secular humanism. Such doctrinal concerns don't exist for Rocío Martínez-Sampere and Jordi Domenech, who were born the year before Franco's death. For both of them, marriage is out of the question and careers are important. But, at 33, they are expecting their second son this spring. Becoming parents has been a balancing act for the couple...
...pushing against an open door; both the Qatar tournament organizers and the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) agreed that she could compete. "They all welcomed me warmly," she told TIME at the end of a grueling practice session in Tel Aviv with her part-time coach, Conchita Mart ínez, a 1994 Wimbledon champion. Tennis officials assured the young Israeli that she would be given round-the-clock security in Qatar, and one member of her entourage was told that Peer would be treated "like the Emir's wife...
Gift-Card Crisis The canaries in the coal mine of the next recession may well be gift cards. Usually they provide a post-Christmas bounce for stores, but this year, say big retailers like Wal-Mart, cash-crunched consumers are either saving their holiday gift cards or spending them on necessities like toiletries and school supplies instead of luxuries like iPods and DVDs...
...ragtag fake-news conference that should have been on public-access cable. The Oscar telecast may be missing many of its top attractions. The writers' strike has crippled or threatened other awards shows, but last night the 14th annual Screen Actors Guild bash went on - the first trophy mart of the year to be televised, thanks to a waiver from the writers. It is also the one show with no "little people" awards: no sound editors, no writers or directors, just the beautiful people on the screen. Thus the SAG show had the sacred duty of reminding people what these...
...operations, too, have evolved to complement its neighbor, says Michael DeGolyer, a professor at Hong Kong Baptist University who has studied relations between the city and its mainland economic hinterland. "What Shenzhen ports have been doing is straight-through shipment," DeGolyer says. "You fill a full ship with Wal-Mart stuff, and it goes straight to the U.S." That has left Hong Kong's port - which is managed by Hutchison Whampoa, the same Hong Kong conglomerate that operates Shenzhen's - to concentrate on more logistically complex operations, including breaking down containers for shipment to multiple destinations. DeGolyer says the overtures...