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...months Gina Cruz, a Manila grandmother, played Pepsi-Cola's Numbers Fever promotion lottery, buying several bottles a day and saving the caps, in the hope that one of the numbers printed inside would win her a 1 million peso ($40,000) prize. When the magic number, 349, was announced in May 1992, Cruz was overjoyed to find she had not one but two caps bearing the winning digits. She promptly fainted...
...biggest shock came when Cruz discovered she had not won anything at all. She and thousands of others were victims of a computer error that generated 800,000 winning numbers instead of 18. The company explained that it simply did not have the $32 billion it would take to pay all claimants and that the real winners would be identified by security codes placed on caps...
Both Boyle and Co-Captain Alexia Cruz said that although team members turned in outstanding performances and many received invitations to the Eastern Championships next weekend, the points were hard to come...
Harvard's 4x100 relay team of Cruz, junior Kristina Lynch, sophomore Shireen Boulos and Boyle took second place with a time of 48.1 seconds, and the Crimson's 4x400 relay team of Boulos, Lynch, Boyle and freshman Amanda Williams also finished second...
...small, young team," Cruz said. "We just work really hard to get points...