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...diversification, solidity and stability to our future results," Santander chairman Emilio Botín proclaimed. So has the predicted round of consolidation begun at last? Er, not really. "This is not the beginning of cross-border banking mergers in the euro zone," says Francesco Giavazzi, an economist at Milan's Bocconi University. If anything, Giavazzi says, Santander's move in Britain demonstrates how many barriers remain to such transnational deals. Santander had already been blocked from taking over France's Société Générale in 1999 because the bid came from abroad. When Spain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Banks Without Borders | 8/1/2004 | See Source »

...bases of identification with the game. While fans treat the game as a tableux enactment of ancient tribal battles, the "actors" are often of foreign origin whose wanderings might have them, within a year, being hailed as champions of the Basque or Catalan cause, or the class rivalries of Milan, or some other oblique issue. They're simply professionals marketing their skills to the highest bidder in the increasingly globalized world of international soccer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Soccer Means to the World | 7/21/2004 | See Source »

...game as a tableux enactment of ancient tribal battles, the "actors" are Dutchmen, Georgians, Danes, Brazilians, Portuguese, Swedes, Frenchmen, Guineans, Ivorians, Bulgarians and others whose professional wanderings might have them, within a year, being hailed as champions of the Basque or Catalan cause, or the class rivalries of Milan, or some other oblique cause. They're simply professionals marketing their skills to the highest bidder in the increasingly globalized world of international soccer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soccer's New Wars | 7/15/2004 | See Source »

...Every summer fashionistas from Milan to Montauk gravitate to one "it" handbag, but this season three silhouettes?all from British design houses?are dominating the red-hot luxury leather-goods market. And they're not the usual logo-laden suspects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's all in the Bag | 7/12/2004 | See Source »

...says the CiU's Jané. "He was the Prime Minister ultimately responsible for all decisions. It's not good that the parties put limits on our hearings." Judge Juan del Olmo's separate judicial investigation of 3/11 isn't dwelling on politics. The arrest last month in Milan of Egyptian Rabei Osman Sayed Ahmed, whose fingerprints were found in the house where the bombs were prepared, may have brought police closer to the top of the network's command structure. As important as it is to figure out what happened between March 11 and 14, the inquiry into Ahmed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blame Game | 7/11/2004 | See Source »

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