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DIED. NELSON ("THE ADMIRAL") BARRERA, 44, career home-run champion and one of the great figures in Mexican baseball, electrocuted while trying to extricate metal roofing that had become entangled with power lines atop his home; in Campeche, Mexico. In a 26-year career in the Mexican Baseball League, Barrera hit 455 home runs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 7/22/2002 | See Source »

...second-in-command. They both started serving their sentences in Connally at roughly the same time. Rodriguez was sentenced to life for hiring a hit man to kill his wife. The son of San Antonio business owners, he chose to plead guilty and not face trial. His lawyer Roy Barrera Sr. told the Dallas Morning News, "He looked at me and said he did it because he considered [murdering his wife] a challenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who's The Scariest Of The Connally Seven? | 1/22/2001 | See Source »

...Rebecca cannot quite bring herself to embrace Aegeon, her long-lost husband, in the form of Dustin Barrera, 10. No matter--the teacher is impressed. Did anyone help her rehearse the lines? he asks. The diminutive citizens of Ephesus erupt in laughter. It's an inside joke: as the teacher well knows, none of his actors come from English-speaking homes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Teacher Works Six Days a Week | 4/24/2000 | See Source »

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