Word: pedro
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...diet. U.S. authorities should realize that so long as there is a multibillion-dollar demand for drugs, lots of people will go to any lengths to profit from that demand. The war on drugs will never be won until the real enemy is confronted and attacked. PEDRO MARTIN COLEA Mexico City...
BASEBALL GOT WHAT IT DIDN'T DEserve. Namely, baseball. A season that began with 48-year-old Pedro Borbon Sr. wheezing and falling off the mound as a replacement pitcher ended with a glorious World Series in which 27-year-old Pedro Borbon Jr. was warming up in the ninth inning for the world champion Atlanta Braves. A season that at first seemed too short because of its 144-game schedule provided fans with too many memories. Forget the owners, forget the union activists, forget the Baseball Network, whatever that was. Remember that the game, if left alone long enough...
...picked, Pedro Pimentel '99, who is from the Dominican Republic, reflected on what he had learned in his FUP experience...
Then there are those who think the Indians are just imitating art--a rather generous term for the 1989 movie Major League. Playing on the preposterous notion that the Indians win the pennant, the flick features such characters as Willie Mays Hayes (Wesley Snipes), Wild Thing (Charlie Sheen) and Pedro Serrano (Dennis Haysbert), a Caribbean slugger who worships an idol called Jobu. Well, center fielder Lofton has lived up to the Willie Mays part, with 77 stolen bases, 77 runs batted in and a .345 batting average in 162 games over the past two seasons. Reliever Mesa has taken...
...rare here. The Mexicali Cineplex offers a choice among Nell, Speechless, Junior and Disclosure. At the border checkpoint, housewives flood through turnstiles heading for Calexico's Wal-Mart. Calexico's mayor is Mexican American, as are most residents. Even on the university campus in Mexicali, says student-body president Pedro Ariel Mendivil, anti-American slogans are virtually unheard of. ``That's old-fashioned politics,'' he says, adding that he hopes to earn a master's degree in the U.S. to gain foreign experience. He will not emigrate, however: ``I love Mexico passionately. We have all the resources here, but they...