Word: alfonso
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Eighteen-year-old Alfonso Lopez Jr. was just six weeks short of his high school graduation when, in March 1992, he was caught carrying a .38-cal. handgun on school grounds. Although Lopez insisted that the weapon had simply been given to him by one classmate with instructions to deliver it to another, the San Antonio, Texas, senior suddenly found himself in deep trouble. He had no money for bail, no funds to hire a lawyer and, thanks to a law Congress had passed two years earlier that banned guns within 1,000 ft. of a school, little chance...
...assault-weapons ban and the Republican push to put federal limits on state-court damage awards. In his weekly radio address last Saturday, Clinton said he had ordered Attorney General Janet Reno to report within a week on how to make the school gun ban constitutional. In the meantime, Alfonso Lopez is heading to a place where firearms are not a problem. He is joining the Marines. -Reported by Nina Burleigh and J.F.O. McAllister/Washington and Andrea Sachs/New York
...Alfonso Caramazza, professor of psychology at Dartmouth and adjunct professor of psychiatry at Dartmouth Medical School, said last night he has accepted a professorship...
...field that's really central to human cognition--very volatile," Cavanaugh said. "Alfonso is at the top of this and we don't have the resources in psycholinguistics. He's really the capstone to our recent rebuilding of the experimental [psychology] side of the department...
...more troublesome," said Alfonso J. Galindo, a Mexican national who has been studying in the U.S. for five years, and is now pursuing a Master of Law (LLM) at Harvard Law School...