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...Golden Shoe award, perhaps the greatest achievement for a novillero. This year he is again poised to rank near the top before becoming a fully fledged torero in the fall. This Saturday, he faces his rival, Cayetano, a fellow novillero who won 88 trophies last year, in San Sebastián. Cayetano, unlike his challenger, is a purebred torero: his grandfather, Antonio Ordoñez, was immortalized in Ernest Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon, and his uncle, father, and brother are all bullfighting legends. It will be an important fight, says Leal, because of their contrasting backgrounds. "Cayetano...
...Friday, William J. Levada, former Archbishop of San Francisco, will become the first new Cardinal to be elevated by Pope Benedict XVI at a Vatican ceremony. Levada already has the Pontiff's old job maintaining Roman Catholic orthodoxy as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, making him the most influential U.S. prelate in history. He spoke with Time's Jeff Israely. how will you feel when you get your red hat from the Pope? Of course, I'm honored. But you also want to make sure your hat is on straight. Your new job places...
...Carmen and Cancún in Mexico have long been retirement havens, ever venturesome boomers are settling deeper into Central America, lured there as much by the laid-back ethos as by the lush forests and beckoning beaches. Costa Rica alone, according to the foreign-retiree association Casa Canada in San José, plays host to 50,000 Americans. That migration has spawned a real estate boom in scenic coastal and mountain towns from Honduras to Panama...
DIED. ANN CALVELLO, 76, fiery Roller Derby Queen and a reigning icon of the American sport cum spectacle since the 1940s; in Burlingame, Calif. Cast as a villain who relished boos from the crowd, she reached her zenith in the '60s as a star of San Francisco's famed Bay City Bombers. With purple, green and polka-dot hair, tattoos and a flair for elbow-throwing, the Meanest Mama on Skates endured 12 broken noses and numerous cracked ribs competing over seven decades...
...will be notifying colleges,” O’Reilly said. “Colleges will be alerted to the possibility that these are the students whose scores could possibly change.” William Smelko, a high school senior at the St. Augustin school, located in San Diego, Calif., who applied to Harvard regular decision, expressed his dismay at the possibility of more scoring errors. “Because you never know whether the scores you get back are really what you deserve...that kind of uncertainty just brings out more anxiety,” Smelko said...