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...Argentine sensation is banging in goals aplenty for his Spanish club, Barcelona, in the world's best league, but he still can't find a place on the national side. Coach Marcelo Bielsa has an abundance of superb forwards to choose from (Gabriel Batistuta, Hernan Crespo, Claudio Lopez, Ariel Ortega, Kily Gonzales, Gustavo Lopez ... we could go on) and Saviola looks likely to sit out Korea/Japan. Still, he has time on his side. And history, too: five World Cups ago, another diminutive teenage prodigy with an unflattering nickname?"Pelusa" or "The Wild-Haired One"?found himself confined to the Argentine...
...AMANCIO ORTEGA Fashion retailer...
...Ortega, 65, began producing clothes in the family kitchen in 1963; today, thanks to the May IPO of his textile company Inditex, he is Spain's wealthiest man. Inditex owns clothing chains in 34 countries, including the U.S. Zara, the best known, sells affordable copies of high-fashion originals soon after they hit the catwalk. Zara will increase its U.S. presence later this year by opening two stores in Miami, its first outlets outside New York City...
...should have said that C students can become President of the United States only if they are sons of a former President and if their brother is Florida's Governor [NOTEBOOK, June 4]. If they are not so lucky, they must bear down much harder on their studies. ALFREDO ORTEGA-RUBIO La Paz, Mexico...
...children, they're not going to be as productive," says Kevin Sved, 34, the school's co-founder. Accelerated says it outperformed the community's other public schools by 270% on last year's standardized tests. "It's like a $20,000 private school without the tuition," says Mario Ortega, 37, a mortgage banker who transferred his two children there from a private academy. "I never expected to find quality education in South Central Los Angeles...