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...program that puts high school kids in shops alongside seasoned car mechanics. More than 7,800 students have tried it, and 98% of them have ended up working at the business where they apprenticed. "I knew this was my best way to get into a dealership," says Chris Rolando, 20, an AYES graduate who works at one in Detroit. "My friends are still at pizza-place jobs and have no idea what to do for a living. I just bought my own house and have a career...
...extra-extended family, even if they do tax his budget. "All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important," he says. He helps pay for the education of some of his younger relatives. He even gave a few hundred dollars to Rolando Navarrete, a once famous boxing champion from his hometown who squandered his talent and ended up in jail for a few years on a rape charge. Sitting in the kitchen of his apartment surrounded by a coterie of relatives, Pacquiao seems happy and at ease, joking with his brother...
...Rolando Flores ’07 of Burbank, Calif., said it felt good to be from a well-represented state, and that the adjustment to the East Coast had been an easy process...
...facts surrounding Gandolph’s crime have been invented, the basic premise of the situation—a confessed and condemned murder suddenly begins pleading innocence, and another convict claims to have committed the crime—loosely parallels the case of former Illinois death row inmates Rolando Cruz and his co-defendant Alex Hernandez, whom Turow represented in appeal in 1991. A fabricated confession, as well as significant oversight and mishandling of the case by detectives, led to their false convictions in 1983. After a third trial, Hernandez’s sentence was reduced to 80 years...
...desk doing paperwork, I listen to the station. When DJs come down after a show, they’ll stop in to talk to me. My main job is to support the students and guide them through the process of doing a great show,” says Rolando Carrera, Asst. to the GM. Murphy and Carerra meet twice weekly with student managers of WERS to discuss the station’s operation. “When issues come up, I act as a sounding board. I’ll question the students, asking, ‘How would this...