Word: rodriguezes
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...Irving, played by Tom Cruise, reveals the government’s new strategy for the war in the Middle East to ambitious journalist Janine Roth, played by Meryl Streep. The plan, implemented as the Senator discloses the information to Roth, impacts the lives of two recently-graduated soldiers: Ernest Rodriguez (Michael Peña) and Arian Finch (Derek Luke), who are under active duty in the front lines of the War on Terror. Their trials constitute the second storyline. The third and least thrilling story line (although no terribly high standards are set by the other two) takes place...
...along dance sequence and then the whole gang tries to eat floating origami hummingbirds. Who could ask for more? For us Americans, this is probably what heaven is like. For our lucky Canadian neighbors however, it’s probably just another Tuesday night. —Nayeli E. Rodriguez...
...country that's nutty about gossip, veteran barbers Cesar Larios and Manuel Rodriguez run the engine room of the national rumor mill - ? Managua's landmark Imperial Barbershop. Since this modest three-chair barbershop opened its doors 35 years ago, Rodriguez and Larios have seated, aproned and lathered some of Nicaragua's most important politicians, bankers and powerbrokers. Right-wing former president Arnoldo Alem?n and ex-communist guerrilla leader Henry "Modesto" Ruiz are both on the client list. His Eminence, Cardinal Miguel Obando y Bravo, the country's top religious authority, has been getting the same haircut here for 30 years...
...Unless served a summons, however, Larios and Rodriguez prefer to respect barber-client privilege, especially with their bigger clients - the ones who have outgrown the chair, so to speak. Arnoldo Alem?n, the portly former president convicted on embezzlement charges, now sends a car and driver to fetch Rodr?guez to do a home haircut, for which the barber charges double, or $9. Miguel Obando y Bravo, who used to come into the shop when he was just Archbishop of Managua, started sending the car after the Pope named him cardinal...
...build up a confidence with the clients," Rodriguez says, politely declining to discuss any of the really juicy tidbits that have been entrusted to him from the barber's chair over the years. "You hear so much, it's hard to remember everything they say," he adds diplomatically, with a revealing twinkle in his eye. In fact, the reason his clients feel so free to express themselves may be that the whatever they say is carefully swept up with the hair clippings and discarded...