Word: luna
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...cartel operative. In statements to the local press, the military claimed that Beltran confessed to paying the demonstrators $15 to $35 each to take to the streets. "We have to stop criminal groups trying to generate chaos through co-optation and threats," said Federal Public Safety Secretary Genaro Garcia Luna, the leading figure in President Felipe Calderón's campaign against crime. (See pictures of Mexico City's police fighting crime...
...Lamont Library may have more pressing concerns than assignments and deadlines: as late as last Thursday, the library’s café still stocked nutrition bars that had been recalled during a nation-wide salmonella outbreak. Clif Bar & Company announced a voluntary recall of various CLIF and LUNA bars on Jan. 30, citing “concerns that the recalled bars contain peanut products that were manufactured by Peanut Corporation of America (PCA), which is the focus of an ongoing Salmonella investigation.” Clif’s Web site lists Chocolate Chip Peanut Crunch bars with sell...
...reasonable election officials of the Minnesota counties started sorting the rejected ballots into five neat little piles, in case the state canvassing board decided (as it did Friday) that the ballots should count. One of those fifth-pile votes, the Franken camp discovered, belonged to Erick Garcia Luna, the chairman of the state Democratic Latino caucus, who voted absentee because he was volunteering the day of the election. Like many people from Latin America, Garcia Luna has two last names, and Minnesotans aren't used to Latin Americans. So it seems logical that some election official looked up his last...
...Bathing Ape By Nigo with Akio Iida and Ian Luna Rizzoli, 368 pages...
Unfortunately, Freddy Antonio Castillo Luna doesn't have e-mail or a phone in his bakery-home outside Managua. So I had to get a Kiva volunteer to go there with a cell phone and translate. My first suggestion was to change the name of the place from the Little Mango Bakery to the far more compelling Joel and Freddy's Extreme Cupcakery. I thought the bakery should switch its focus from empanadas and breadsticks to extreme cupcakes, for which we would charge $4 apiece. I would have my loan repaid in five cupcakes, assuming generous tipping...