Word: cruz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hotel worker, Hector Escudero Aponte, was the first person arrested in the case, but Justice Secretary Hector Rivera Cruz said officials believed he had not acted alone...
...presidency yet smudged her sense of priorities. The eldest of Cory's four daughters, Maria Elena ("Ballsy") Cruz, 31, is still her private secretary, and her only son, Benigno III ("Noynoy"), 26, was one of her emissaries to the Communists. Aquino attends no more than three formal dinners a week, and the day on which the historic cease-fire with the Communists was signed found her marking what would have been her husband's 54th birthday with Cardinal Sin and her one-year-old grandson Justin Benigno. Being a grandmother, she says, makes her happier than being President...
...Tuesday, California voters soundly rejected Bird and two of her liberal colleagues on the court, Associate Justices Joseph Grodin and Cruz Reynoso, marking the first time in the state's history that any justices of the state's Supreme Court have been removed from office...
...just how well can campaigns for or against Supreme Court Justices really work? In California, opponents of Chief Justice Rose Bird and Associate Justices Joseph Grodin and Cruz Reynoso assert that the three justices should be removed because they are out of touch with the majority, especially on the issue of the death penalty. Ideology and specific issues become the centerpieces of Court campaigns, while the subtle principles the Court is charged with enforcing are lost by the wayside...
Almost every Harvard football player pays his dues as a demo at some time in his career. Cruz is one of a handful of senior demos, kids who are playing their last year of organized football with little hope of varsity glory...