Word: ubaldo
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...hate Mexicans? -Ubaldo Padilla, OROVILLE, CALIF.Ah, jeez. You know, even responding to that question gives it some credibility. I don't hate anyone because of their ethnicity. Nothing I've ever said, nothing I've ever done, I believe, could ever be construed in that...
...surprisingly, that etiquette lesson has inspired some high-level heckling. Best-selling author Joao Ubaldo Ribeiro wrote an apoplectic critique that caused such a furor last week that the government agreed to review its list. Ribeiro called the wonk who wrote the document "arrogant, cretinous and incompetent" but stopped short of calling the author a clown. (Had he done so, the government's vocabulary primer explains, "the professional who makes a living from making other people laugh might get offended.") When asked why the administration decided to suspend distribution of the document, Perly Cipriano, the tight-lipped Deputy Secretary...
...this rare disease, which strikes one in 50,000 people, is less than one. Moreover, Guariniello says, there are reports of at least another 20-plus previously unrecorded examples, including Signorini's. In February another former Serie A player, Adriano Lombardi, announced he has ALS. And last month, Ubaldo Nanni, who played for third-division Pisa, died at 44 after three years with the illness. There is ALSo concern in England, where the governing Football Association is probing the ALS deaths of several former players, including Don Revie, active from the 1940s to the early '60s, and Willie Maddren, whose...