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...such an animal. Based on the island of Majorca, Nadal and his family shunned mainstream training programs as he grew up, preferring the more homespun methods of Rafael's uncle Toni, whose tennis credentials consist of a brief stint competing on the national circuit. Passing up funding from Spain's national tennis academy, and scholarship money from America's private academies, Rafael and Toni would travel to the mainland only when a tournament required it. More skillful opponents were viewed as problems to overcome, not exemplars to be mimicked. Nadal - who first picked up a racquet aged...
...Nadal's exoticism on the tennis court stands in contrast to the conventional life he lives off it. The son of a prosperous family - his father, Sebastian, runs a successful window company, another uncle was a star soccer defender for Barcelona and Spain - Nadal retains the earnest good manners of a middle-class Spaniard. Rebellious in his fist-pumping, swashbuckling play, he dresses smartly for social occasions. He lists his hobbies as golf, fishing and video games, and follows his uncle's rule that he carry his own bags and racquets when at tournaments. He still lives with his parents...
...President-elect's legal advisers. Fidell and others say it is possible, though highly unlikely, that Bush et al. could be arrested overseas - one imagines the Vice President pinched midstream on a fly-fishing trip to Norway - just as Augusto Pinochet, the Chilean dictator, was indicted in Spain and arrested in London for his crimes...
...number of free trade agreements in place since Bush took office. The president has done an admirable job under trying worldwide economic circumstances, and as a result America’s 2008 Gross Domestic Product growth was higher than that of the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, or Japan, as well as the average for advanced economies, according to International Monetary Fund projections. President Bush has also made an unprecedented effort to reach beyond our borders and save lives overseas. His efforts to fight AIDS in Africa have been extraordinary. In Vice President-elect Joe Biden?...
Cuba's fertile land and favorable climate allowed all three types of tobacco leaves used in a cigar - the wrapper, filler and binder - to be harvested on the island, and sailing ships were soon distributing Cuban tobacco from Europe to Asia. Columbus had claimed Cuba for Spain, and the Spanish soon cornered the nascent industry, mandating in the 17th century that all tobacco for export be registered in Seville; they later tightened their stranglehold on the market by forbidding Cuban growers to sell the crop to anyone but them - a monopoly that persisted until...