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...matchups like these aren't saved for All-Star games and the World Series. As for this year, some of the usual star power is missing. Ken Griffey Jr., Tony Gwynn and Matt Williams, all voted onto the team by the fans, have been sidelined by injuries. Roberto Alomar, Frank Thomas and Greg Maddux are also hurt and may miss the game. Despite the injuries, fans will still have plenty of stars to admire, including Barry Bonds, Mo Vaughn, Albert Belle and Mike Piazza. -- Josh Dubow
...long ago, Coca-cola chairman Roberto Goizueta showed up to salute a group of American immigrants as they took the oath of citizenship at Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson. Coke's boss eloquently recalled his own family's flight from Cuba and eventual naturalization as proud Americans. Said the courtly ceo: "When my family and I came to this country, we had to leave everything behind...our photographs hung on the walls, our wedding gifts sat on the shelves...
...will replace Domingo? These two supersingers have raised tenor worship to extraordinary levels, and even they admit that they can't go on forever. There are many claimants for the rich prize of tenor dominance, but the one taken most seriously is a young French-born Sicilian named Roberto Alagna. He is 32, handsome, slender and blessed with a sweet, lyric--but not gigantic--voice. Plus he can act. The world is at his feet...
...Cuban Foreign Minister Roberto Robaina, referring to the downing of two civilian planes operated by an exile group which had repeatedly ignored warnings to stop violating Cuban airspace...
Bearden made this observation last week as his former employers tried gamely to explain the CIA's relationship with someone who may be a creep of significant proportions: a Guatemalan army colonel named Julio Roberto Alpirez. Earlier this year, New Jersey Democratic Congressman Robert Torricelli stunned the Clinton Administration by charging that the CIA had failed to share information with Congress and the State Department suggesting that Alpirez, once an agency informant, had been involved in two ugly, politically explosive murders in 1990 and 1992, and in fact the CIA had paid him $44,000 even after linking...