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...made little impression on the European Tour until he broke his arm skiing in 1999. He used the enforced two-month layoff to consult Belgian sports psychologist Jos Vanstiphout. Since then there has been no looking back. His U.S. Open win was followed by victories in the Scottish and Madrid Opens, and he teamed up with Els to win the EMC2 World Cup in Japan over the U.S. pairing of David Duval and Tiger Woods. Now a venerable 33 years old, Goosen is enjoying his late success - which will ensure his name is not easily forgotten...
SPAIN Two men alleged to have channeled cash to multiple al-Qaeda operatives were arrested in Madrid in late April. A third man, described by investigators as "al-Qaeda's chief accountant in Spain" and accused of helping fund the 1998 embassy bombings, was arrested around the same time in Barcelona...
While working full time for the AAUP in Washington during the academic year, Francis reserved her summers for La Granja, Spain, a town north of Madrid, where her mother had founded a summer school for American girls...
...tell. Women pervade Goya's work. He was fascinated, obsessed with them and recorded all their aspects, actual and mythic, typified and individual. His subjects come from all classes. They appear as demonic witches and country sweethearts, as closely human or icily remote aristocrats, star actresses of theater-crazy Madrid, ordinary bulb-nosed wives, allegorical personifications of history, gap-jawed crones, alluring and cheeky majas, cute and not-so-cute whores, blond angels with diaphanous wings on the walls of the Church of San Antonio de la Florida--a conspectus, you might say, of every she-creature the eye could...
...like her companion piece The Clothed Maja, 1800-05, was most probably a Malagan cutie named Pepita Tudo, the mistress of Prime Minister Manuel Godoy. There are portraits of Alba in the show, though neither, alas, of the great standing figures, white and black, from the Alba collection in Madrid and the Hispanic Society in New York City. We must be content with The Duchess of Alba and "La Beata," 1795, the enchanting picture of Alba at play, her black fleece of curls cascading down her back--"There is not a hair on her head," wrote a French visitor...