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...According to Marco Canseco, a reporter for the sports paper Marca, fans of Spanish driver Fernando Alonso booed his archrival (and former McLaren teammate) "fanatically" every time he moved between his mobile home and the pit at the Circuit de Catalunya testing session. Those seated over the British driver's quarters, included some men wearing painted faces, Afro wigs, and t-shirts bearing the word's "Hamilton's Family," went even further, loudly calling Hamilton a "negro de mierda" (or "black shit") and other offensive names...
...only problem with this new conventional wisdom is that it's wrong. "It's one of those unqualified stereotypes about Latinos that people embrace even though there's not a bit of data to support it," says political scientist Fernando Guerra of Loyola Marymount University, an expert on Latino voting patterns. "Here in Los Angeles, all three black members of Congress represent heavily Latino districts and couldn't survive without significant Latino support...
...middle of a Holiday weekend - theoretically one of the busiest times for everyone from the croupiers to the busboys. Estimates for turnout range from 25,000 to 100,000. "It's going to be somewhat difficult for everybody, not just Hispanics who tend to work Saturdays,"said Fernando Romero, president of the non-partisan Hispanics in Politics, an activist group in Nevada that is not endorsing a candidate. "It's brand new and it's a hard concept to understand. You can't register early. You can't vote absentee. You can't vote any time all day. And that...
...never far from controversy: he was arrested in 2004 when a friend reported he had pointed a loaded gun at her while he had been drinking. And, on Jan. 10, the two-time U.S. champion and Olympic team member was found dead in a hotel in the San Fernando Valley. He was 40 years old. Police are investigating the death as a possible drug overdose...
...decided that in her interest she should be placed in a separate house and we would not be allowed to have any contact with her," he wrote. Hong Kong-based Mother's Choice and the Social Welfare Department both declined to answer specific questions about the case, but Fernando Cheung, a Hong Kong lawmaker who has been in contact with the Welfare Department, says he does not believe social workers advised the family to give up the child. "I don't think that's true," he says...