Word: paulino
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...Paulino Cubero, the unemployed 52-year-old who won the content, had said he wrote the words "for the nation of average people who take the subway to work and pay their mortgages." But even subway riders and mortgage payers, it seems, are critics. Announcing the recall, Spanish Olympic Committee president Alejandro Blanco explained that "the lyrics just didn't have broad support among Spanish society." A disappointed Cubero was more pointed. "These are the miseries of our nation," he said. "We can only talk about different nations, not a shared...
...resent very much the statement made by Mr. Bleecker in which he calls the former a "pug." I do not doubt Mr. Bleecker's right to describe the Spanish pugilist as he sees fit but he certainly does not know Senor Uzcudun in using the epithet "pug." Mr. Paulino Uzcudun is a gentleman and a man of culture and refinement, as different in his manners from our common American fighters as night and day. The American public does not know the Spanish fighter. They are guided in their opinions by such types of individuals as Mr. Nicholas Cuyler Bleecker...
...muggy in the Bronx, and the mood on the street was desultory, depressed. Hours earlier, Dominican officials had declared local hero Danny Almonte to be 14 years old, and in a few more hours, Little League officials would declare that, therefore, all games played by Danny's Rolando Paulino All-Star team--known as the Baby Bombers after their Big League neighbors at Yankee Stadium--were forfeit. The team's founder, Rolando Paulino, and Danny's father Felipe de Jesus Almonte were barred from Little League for life. "We were so proud these kids were on the front pages," said...
...would mean that for most of this season of his greatest baseball success, Danny was in the country illegally. His father held a birth certificate indicating his boy was born on April 7, 1989, and was therefore eligible for 12-and-under Little League play. Danny pitched for the Paulino team in the summer of 2000, and his performance--he had a real curveball to go along with his nasty heater--as well as the play of some teammates raised suspicions. Backers of a Staten Island team spent $10,000 on a private eye this summer, hoping to prove Paulino...
...ROLANDO PAULINO Diamonds not forever: Bronx Little League chief banned for life for playing 14-year-old ringer...