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...After Pedro Martinez pitched the Sox to a 4-2 victory in last Friday’s rain-delayed contest, the Yankees went on to win both of the final two games by a 9-8 score, with each of the victories coming in the Bronx Bombers’ final at-bat of the game...
...people daily through 1,200 publications. DIED. LIONEL BERNSTEIN, 82, a white antiapartheid activist; in Oxford, England. Bernstein stood trial for sabotage and attempted overthrow of the South African government alongside Nelson Mandela in 1963. Following his acquittal, Bernstein moved to England where he practiced as an architect. DIED. PEDRO ALCAZAR, 26, a Panamanian boxer, of a brain injury 36 hours after he lost his World Boxing Organization junior bantamweight title fight; in Las Vegas. Alcazar showed no signs of injury immediately after the bout, before suddenly collapsing. DIED. MILES FRANCIS STAPLETON FITZALAN-HOWARD, 86, the 17th Duke of Norfolk...
...wearing jeans and a short-sleeved shirt loudly adorned with wine bottles and bunches of red and green grapes?the same outfit he wore to work. While other guests take turns singing along with the piano player, Duterte tells a strange and disturbing story. In 1993, Davao's San Pedro Cathedral was hit with three grenades during an evening Mass. Six parishioners were killed. The attackers were Muslim militants, the sort easily found in Davao, a time-honored haven for kidnappers, bandits, communist rebels and roaming private armies. Four of the attackers were quickly arrested. Just as quickly, Duterte relates...
...convoy rolls down San Pedro Street, with Duterte in the lead on one of his beloved motorcycles. He is followed by two other bikes and a pickup bearing M16 toting bodyguards. Now and again, he lets loose a siren, in part to clear traffic, in part to signal that the mayor is on the prowl. Some people stare. Others wave. A few duck swiftly into the shadows. Duterte says he "patrols" twice a week, usually late at night, stopping at precinct houses to see who's in the holding cells and why, and to make sure his police are doing...
...zero-tolerance, policies, many schools no longer grant students a warning and a second chance, turning over even the most routine disciplinary matters to local police. "Schools now call in the police if a student is talking too much or doesn't do his homework," says Pedro Noguera, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education...