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...SANK HIS BATTLESHIP Spain's Philip II didn't impress England's Elizabeth I, who said she couldn't "fear a man who took 10 years a-learning of his alphabet." Her ships humiliated his armada...
...only half Italian. Batali's mother Marilyn is of Canadian and English heritage. His father Armandino, a former Boeing executive who has his own bustling restaurant in Seattle, is the Italian one. Batali grew up in Washington State and then, after Boeing transferred his father, in Spain. Batali has two siblings, Dana and Gina, and Marilyn Batali says she requested that each child prepare one meal a week. "At some point, we also began having international days where they were required to have something weird," she recalls. (That may explain her son's fondness for items like duck testicles...
...struggle beyond the football field," he said at a press conference a few days later. "I made my decision because fans attacked me for my color." When the Royal Spanish Football Federation (rfef) fined Zaragoza just €9,000 - though that was the largest amount ever imposed in Spain for such an incident - fifa, too, decided it could tolerate no more. At a meeting in Zurich this month, football's governing body ruled that national associations must punish clubs whose fans are guilty of racist abuse by deducting league points and imposing relegation or disqualification from tournaments, with...
PERMANENT CEASE-FIRE DECLARED. By Basque terrorist group ETA; in a video communiqu? sent to a Basque TV station in Spain. Founded in 1959, ETA has killed more than 850 people and kidnapped or injured hundreds of others in its independence campaign for the Basque region of Spain. After the March 2004 Islamic-terrorist attack in Madrid, support for its violent methods ebbed away. ETA previously announced an "indefinite" cease-fire in 1998, but resumed its attacks after peace talks broke down...
This is not the first time that ETA has declared a truce, but it is the first time that it has used the word "permanent." But will it be? Opinion in Spain is divided...