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...there is a snake in this hermetically sealed paradise, in the person of Rigoberto's son Alfonso. The lad's age is not specified, although when he runs up and hugs his stepmother, his head rests just slightly above her waist. Alfonso seems unusually ardent for such a little fellow. Lucrecia spots him spying on her through a window while she bathes; figuring that anything goes in this weird household, she puts on quite a show. When Rigoberto leaves for a business trip, Alfonso takes over as the man of the house. What will Rigoberto do if he ever finds...
...where other reporters zagged, going to places and shadowing sources others ignored. He has an obvious feel for people and a way of making them talk. Simon's biggest coup is a chat with a former Hart paramour, described as a moderately attractive, 47-year-old divorcee. A patient, ardent suitor, Hart planned intimate dinners and romantic field trips to such venues as the Lincoln Memorial. In romance as well as politics, Hart seems like an escapee from Twin Peaks: once, he headed for the shower and handed the woman a biography of Thomas Jefferson. "Skim this," he told...
...defining America's obsession with professional sport when he said, "You can only be young once, but you can be immature forever." And that goes for women as well as men, for dockworkers and day-care specialists. The Octoberfest marks any fan's last chance to be a kid, ardent and hopeful. Till next year. Baseball, like it oughta...
Gamebreaker: Restic will be one of the most ardent fans cheering at graduation ceremonies for Holy Cross flanker Mark Gallagher next spring. Restic has endured more than his share of Gallagher, who needs only 13 more receptions to pass the great Gordie Lockbaum and become the Crusaders' all-time leading receiver...
...seeds of the crisis were planted eight years ago after a former policeman named Lennox Phillip went to Canada to study engineering and returned to Trinidad as Yasin Abu Bakr, an ardent Islamic radical. Bakr soon became the leader of the Jamaat al-Muslimeen, or Group of Muslims. The Islamic splinter group, with few ties to the mainstream Muslims who make up 6% of the Trinidad and Tobago population of 1.3 million, espoused a potent mixture of religious fundamentalism and left-wing politics. The self-styled "Imam" traveled to Libya and was a vocal supporter of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi...