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...Tres Hombres, a cantina in the heart of Woodland Park, four of the men--Randy Halprin, Donald Newbury, Patrick Murphy Jr. and "Brother Jim"--were just starting to become regulars. "Just regular guys," says bartender Pam Smith. She remembers Michael Rodriguez--who had hired a hit man to kill his wife for $400,000 in insurance money--as being "real nice." He came in for lunch. Smith and her boss Darby Howard remember their tattoos--and, in alleged ringleader George Rivas' case, a fresh-orange hairdo. But Tres Hombres sees lots of people with mohawks and piercings. The Gang...
...Michael Rodriguez, 38, may be Rivas' second-in-command. They both started serving their sentences in Connally at roughly the same time. Rodriguez was sentenced to life for hiring a hit man to kill his wife. The son of San Antonio business owners, he chose to plead guilty and not face trial. His lawyer Roy Barrera Sr. told the Dallas Morning News, "He looked at me and said he did it because he considered [murdering his wife] a challenge...
...Alex ("A-Rod") Rodriguez's $252 million deal [SPORT, Dec. 25-Jan. 1]: There have always been players whose salaries seemed to break the bank, and there will continue to be inequities in Major League Baseball's competitive balance. You neglected to mention how some teams are able to afford such players. Here in Boston, it's hard to be a Red Sox fan when the team has just signed Manny Ramirez for $160 million while trying to hit up Massachusetts taxpayers for $312 million to replace beloved Fenway Park...
...find Rodriguez's $252 million 10-year contract with the Texas Rangers obscene. To put the issue in perspective, please note that 16% of the people in Texas live in poverty...
...People have raised a number of names, but there are no clear candidates. Some have suggested that the Honduran Archbishop Oscar Rodriguez as a possible outsider candidate. Others speak will of the Argentinian Jesuit Archbishop Jorge Mario Bergoglio. The front-runner among the Italians appears to be the Archbishop of Genoa, Dionigi Tettamanzi. But there's no standout candidate...