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Here comes another one of Dad's lectures, the kids must think as their father drives them to their public school in California's San Fernando Valley. "I know you get tired of hearing it, because I get tired of saying it," the old man says. "If you do what you're supposed to do, you'll have all the time in the world to do what you want to do." He shrugs his shoulders. "Of course I can see the look on their faces," he tells a reporter. "They'd rather hear the radio station than hear...
...ACQUITTED. FERNANDO NINO, 25, and MARK WALKER, 36, two American soldiers charged with negligent homicide in the June 13 road deaths of two 14-year-old South Korean schoolgirls crushed by a 45-ton armored vehicle under their command; by a U.S. military court at Camp Casey north of Seoul. South Koreans have demonstrated angrily outside the base, demanding that the soldiers be tried by the South Korean judicial system, and calling for the withdrawal of the 37,000 U.S. troops sta-tioned in the country. The Justice Ministry has described the acquittal as "regrettable," while two prominent political parties...
...Fernando E. Daniels ’03, attempting to bring the mack to the comely Louisa K. Mackintosh ’04, ran around the bases in Cambridge Common, thereby working his awkward, girl-ignorant game in a surprisingly literal fashion. She took the opportunity to run a race of her own: the 40-meter dash into Radcliffe Yard, where she lost Daniels by crouching behind a bush. Commented Daniels, “I just don’t get that girl. I ran around the bases, for chrissakes.” Final thought: Daniels may have reached home base...
...hoping to see second and third with one out,” Morris says as Cardinals leadoff hitter Fernando Viña grounds out to shortstop, “because something comes out in Markovian theory that’s very interesting. When the third-base runner sees the ball hit on the ground to second base, he has to make an instinctive calculation whether try for home. The question is, what is the probability he will score that would justify going? If it’s greater than 7 percent”—he pauses to emphasize...
...Sept. 10, Muhammad bought the Caprice at a Trenton, N.J., auto dealer. "He was impatient. He talked back rude," says Fernando Maestre, 20, the salesman who dealt with Muhammad. Even though he didn't ask Muhammad why he was buying a car, Muhammad volunteered three different explanations, Maestre says. First he said he wanted it for his son; then he said it was for himself; and finally he said he wanted to use it as a taxi. "He didn't want us to find out a lot about...