Word: fajardo
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When one-year-old Gloria Maria Fajardo and her family left Cuba for America, Cuba never really left them. Gloria's father, Jose Manuel, had been a motorcycle escort for the wife of Cuban ruler Fulgencio Batista, so when the President was overthrown by Fidel Castro in 1958, the Fajardo family fled Havana on a $21 round-trip flight. But once in the U.S., Jose Manuel became restless, itinerant, dreaming of Cuba. He participated in the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 and was thrown into a Cuban prison. Released after two years, he later went to Vietnam with...
...knowledge of computer graphics to create illustrations, including a map of O.J. Simpson's estate. Marisa Campbell, a senior at New York City's Queens College, and Susanne Seinader, a recent graduate of Ryerson Polytechnic University in Toronto, have researched and collected photographs for the Pictures department. Hakim Fajardo from the University of Vermont and Victor Nunez from Wesleyan University have worked on special projects...
...Milwaukee Eldred (3-6) Baltimore 7:05 Mussina (7-1) at Chicago Alvarez (7-0) Detroit 7:05 Belcher (2-7) at Minnesota Tapani (4-2) New York 8:05 Key (6-1) at Kansas City Cone (8-1) Boston 8:05 Clemens (5-2) at Texas Fajardo (0-0) NATIONAL LEAGUE Colorado 7:35 Painter (0-1) at Houston White (0-0) Houston 8:05 Reynolds (2-1) at Philadelphia Boskie (1-1) Cincinnati 9:05 Pugh (3-2) at New York Smith (2-5) Chicago 10:35 Morgan (0-5) at Atlanta Maddux(7-2) Pittsburgh...
...Hispanic plaintiffs consulted with blacks to ensure that their voting strength was not diluted by the redistricting. "We shared our plans with them, they shared their plans with us, and we came up with a plan that didn't step on anybody's toes," says Richard P. Fajardo, an attorney for the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Educational Fund...