Word: rolando
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...nickname is El Gordo, the Fat Man, and he is both agent and metaphor. Joe Cubas, 35, a contractor from Miami, has orchestrated five defections from Cuba's national baseball team, most recently on July 9, when ace pitcher Rolando Arrojo slipped into Cubas' car, leaving his team's exhibition tour. That incident, coupled with the defections in late June at the Mexican border of Cuban boxers Joel Casamayor and Ramon Garbey, have led to widespread speculation that the most exciting event at the Atlanta Olympics will be the long jump--from Cuba...
...shabby living room, the dim bedroom she shares with her son, a rudimentary bathroom and a dank kitchen equipped with a leaky sink, hot plate and ancient refrigerator. Its contents: beans, rice and a frozen three-month-old piece of chicken that she is saving for two-year-old Rolando. "The state gives you six pounds of rice a month, but we eat that in three ; days," she says. When her rations ran out the week before, she sold her grandmother's 10-year-old boots to buy turnips...
...guards who have charged discrimination--current guard Steven Thompson and former guard Rolando Diaz--said this week they never received letters requesting interviews...
...Rolando Diaz...
...report found that the termination of Rolando Diaz, a Hispanic guard who was fired in 1989, was justified because of his lack of proficiency in English. Diaz had charged that the firing was discriminatory in part because of a comment both he and his ex-wife allege Dowling made when he decided to fire Diaz...