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...like the former site of sorrow and destruction, seems as vibrant and glistening as ever. When I arrived, the city had just celebrated the marriage of the crown prince Felipe of Borbon to, in the term used by the Spanish press, the plebeyana—plebian—Letizia Ortiz. The happy couple’s glossy faces shone from every gossip magazine, and commemorative plates, cookies, stemware and t-shirts stood proudly in every store window. Was this just a fairytale dream to sustain the masses that, braving a late-spring rain shower, crowded the streets of Madrid...
...KILLED. FRANCISCO ORTIZ FRANCO, 48, editor and co-founder of the Mexican newsweekly Zeta, famed for its reporting campaigns against the country's drug cartels; by a masked gunman; in Tijuana. The killing is the latest in a series of attacks against Zeta: another of the newspaper's co-founders was murdered in 1988 and its publisher was wounded in a 1997 attack...
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...
...rookie third baseman who attended the same high school as Morgalis in Cincinnati—and whose on-base exploits are well-recorded in the Michael Lewis bestseller, Moneyball—gave Hendricks the heads-up on the minor league life. Garciaparra gave him hitting tips. David Ortiz, the larger-than-life Red Sox first baseman, gave the two Harvard seniors plenty to laugh about...
...close friend with one of five illnesses most likely to be a target of the research. The possibility of curing such afflictions as Alzheimer's and diabetes will be the focus of a multimillion-dollar statewide television campaign. "This is not a wedge issue," contends state senator Deborah Ortiz, who was attacked by Catholic Church officials, with little effect, for authoring the law to encourage stem-cell inquiry. "Ours will be a heartwarming message: that millions of people might be cured of diseases...