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Capitalism may seem complex, but it turns out not so much. When ORLANDO ("El Duque") HERNANDEZ, half-brother of World Series MVP Livan Hernandez, reached Bahamian shores after escaping from Cuba on a 20-ft. raft stocked with water, sugar and four cans of Spam, he indignantly, or perhaps shrewdly, turned down an American offer of asylum. Indignantly, because his six shipmates were not also offered asylum. Shrewdly, because, as agent Joe Cubas advised, claiming citizenship in another country will allow him to avoid the major league baseball draft and immediately make big money as a free agent. El Duque...
While living in Castro's Cuba, Orlando Hernandez learned some powerful capitalist lessons. Foremost among them: Keep your negotiating options open. So it is that even though the U.S. has granted the defecting baseball star -- and half-brother of Florida Marlins World Series hero Livan -- permission to enter the U.S., Orlando has declined to leave. Instead, he's remaining in the Bahamas in hopes of establishing residency, either there or some other country other than the U.S.. The payoff could be huge: If Hernandez is a U.S. resident, he would have to go through baseball's draft and negotiate...
...Florida Marlins In just their fifth year the Marlins proved that football isn't Florida's only big-time sport. Jim Leyland's club, led by pitchers Kevin Brown and Cuban refugee Livan Hernandez, beat the powerful Braves, then outlasted the Indians to win the World Series in an extra-inning thriller. Way to go, kids...
...evidence against Pedro Miguel Gonzalez was strong. Three eyewitnesses said they saw him gun down U.S. Army Sergeant Zak Hernandez in 1992, days before a scheduled visit to Panama by President George Bush. The vehicle used in the shooting was found abandoned at the Gonzalez family ranch, the alleged murder weapon buried at Gonzalez's sister's workplace. Nevertheless, on Nov. 1, after years of delay and controversy, a jury found Gonzalez, the son of the head of Panama's ruling party, innocent of murder, setting off an explosion of indignation. In a replay of the rhetorical battles that marked...
Yale: The strength of this team is the front seven on defense, and the line has proven itself to be one of the best in the Ivies. Defensive end Isaiah Wilson has eight sacks and 12 tackles for loss. Adam Hernandez and Jim Smith have provided 10.5 more sacks for a defense which, like Harvard, has 31 sacks...