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...even put up $10 million more, but financiers were not totally reassured. They noted that Grupo Sidek still has an additional $100 million or so of debt coming due soon, and are concerned that if it fails to pay, other big companies will also stiff their foreign creditors. Eduardo Cabrera, a Latin American investment strategist for Merrill Lynch in New York, says that Zedillo ``should have stepped in with a bridge loan or something'' to remove all fears of a default. The President did not, and the Mexican stock market dropped about 6% last Wednesday to a 17-month...
...baseball the way the game is meant to be played: on intimate terms. It is baseball virtually free of mortifying drug scandals -- no player making $1,000 a month can afford a cocaine habit for long. It is baseball on a human scale. When Peoria Chiefs designated hitter Alex Cabrera was fined $50 this month for illegally grooving his bat, he complained that it was "too expensive." A carpenter or a schoolteacher can relate to that. Fifty bucks is a lot of money. By comparison, the average millionaire in the major leagues seems to be laboring, or not laboring...
...almost impossible to obtain. Even such rudimentary supplies as sutures, syringes and surgical gloves are scarce, as are anesthetics. "We haven't had a simple cotton bandage to put under children's plaster casts for three or four years," says Dr. Julio Gomez, a pediatric surgeon at the Enrique Cabrera National Hospital, outside Havana...
...Last week, my wife faced one down in the kitchen and she killed him in the battle," says graduate students Jose Cabrera, adding that he has seen "three or four" mice in his apartment. "It seems like they're back...
...real Hispanic--bringing up the disturbing possibility that about half the Spanish-speaking community in this country, including the parents of most Latino students, are not "Latino." Gabriel Garcia Marquez is not Latino. Neither is Carlos Fuentes, Rigoberta Menchu, Carlos Salinas de Gotari, Juan Carlos, Fidel Castro, or Guillermo Cabrera Infante...