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...whose talent has lost nothing in the translation. He follows in the footsteps of compatriot Hideo Nomo, the Japanese righthander who was the National League Rookie of the Year in 1995; Korean righthander Chan Ho Park, who won 75 games over the past five seasons; and Mexican lefthander Fernando Valenzuela, who as a 20-year-old in '81 won the league's rookie and Cy Young awards...
...their historic, and justified, resentment of racist gringos to the north and haughty chilangos (Mexico City residents) to the south, who sneered at the border for being neither American nor Mexican enough. "That identity crisis and alienation grew into the violent face of the border," says sociologist Jose Manuel Valenzuela of Tijuana's Colegio de la Frontera Norte. Coupled with the region's poverty, it spawned a subculture of toughs, often called pachucos and cholos...
...dial police at the first sign of trouble. Now when Douglas circles the neighborhood, kids bolt out of their homes as if she were the Good Humor man. "She's not afraid to walk up and down the streets like she's lived here for years," says Emily Valenzuela, a mom who lives a block away. Neither are the dozens of kids from Mesa's ritziest zip codes who now commute to Southside to attend the academy...
Everyone's getting in on the act. Detlef Schrempf is set to rejoin the Portland Trail Blazers after half a year off. There are rumors of a second round of Fernandomania--Valenzuela is only forty, after all. Barry Sanders' return has been so heavily discussed, it might has well have happened. At this rate, let the Tom Seaver watch begin...
RAZA chose Patricia R. Ruvalcaba '03 as secretary; Brian A. Sandoval '03 as publisher; Reyna P. Hernandez '03 as treasurer; Roberto Gradilla '03 as community liaison; David Montes '03 as social chair; Michael J. Lopez '03 as finance commissioner; Ruben Marielarena '02 as Latino Political Committee chair; Ali A. Valenzuela '02 as East Coast Chicano Student Forum representative; and Alejandro R. Rodriguez '03 as Student Advisory Committee representative...