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...greater Madrid. The high point of the local calendar was the traditional festival of Cristo de los Remedios in late August, when residents celebrated with fireworks, bullfights and bull running. The rest of the year, the demands of the town's residents were relatively simple: clean streets, regular garbage pickup and an early bus down Burgos Road to Madrid, where the jobs were. These days, San Sebastián de los Reyes refers to itself as Sanse - "a way of modernizing our corporate image," explains Rubén Holguera, its deputy mayor and councillor for urban development. The town...
...young fútbol freaks, joga.com is a powerful tool. Users can view and debate the Ronaldinho ad ("Ronaldinho is the best player but that 4 times on the crossbar no way," writes Raymond from the Hague, Netherlands, on one board), organize pickup games and rant against the most severe problem facing the sport: racism. Members can blog, upload their own soccer video or view thousands of other clips, from the latest Arsenal highlights to Nikola from Bulgaria juggling the ball--in slow motion, no less--in his bedroom. "Some Tricks I Make!" reads the title...
...never underestimate the indefatigable American profit motive. One Houston contractor, Bert Screen, hopes to make his fortune rebuilding New Orleans. He was packing up his Ford pickup last week, rounding up a crew and planning to head east. "In a twisted way, I'm looking forward to it," he says. "I've always felt New Orleans was my second home, so I will help rebuild it, and make a pile of money." The recovery has already begun. --With reporting by Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, Jyoti Thottam, Dody Tsiantar and Deirdre van Dyk/New York, Wendy Grossman/ Houston and Douglas Waller/Washington
...dinner in the dining halls. The subcommittee of the Committee on House Life (CHL) charged with examining dining hall hours and interhouse restrictions decided last week to recommend to the Council of Masters that students be allowed to order bagged meals up until 4 a.m. on the day of pickup, and that they have the option to place recurring meal requests with a weekly checklist form, instead of having to request one meal at a time. The committee will also suggest in the recommendations that meals be available for pickup in any House, even after dining halls close, according...
...auteur of the sublime Men in Black movies, which may just have been the most deliriously acute comedies of the last decade. But you have to remember that in those pictures the alien invaders often took up residence in our trashiest environments, places where the pickup truck was parked in the front yard and meatloaf was on the kitchen table. You also have to remember that the films argued that Sylvester Stallone was just possibly an extra-terrestrial in disguise and that the supermarket tabloids, with their giddy accounts of UFO landings and the births of two-headed cows , were...