Word: rivera
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...antics of Peter Angelos and the Baltimore Orioles and realize that money does not buy success. And even as the payroll of the vaunted New York Yankees ratcheted ever skyward, at least Yankee fans could point to the core of their team as homegrown--Andy Pettite, Mariano Rivera, Bernie Williams and, of course, Jeter...
After speaking about his influences, Fuentes read a passage from his most recent book, The Years with Laura Diaz, which describes Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo and Laura Diaz's trip to Detroit where Rivera was painting the Ford automobile mural...
...April Rivera, a four-year-old from Miami, is singing the theme song to Barney with her mother. "I love you. You love me," she chirps. "We're a happy family." Even a purple dinosaur, however, can tell this isn't quite true. April's mom Regla Sanchez, 26, is inmate No. 162850 at the Hernando Correctional Institution, 320 miles away in Brooksville, Fla., and April is looking at an image of her mother on a computer screen. This virtual family visit is part of a new pilot program, Reading Family Ties, run by the Florida Department of Corrections...
...JORGE RIVERA NASA official lauded for halting risky shuttle launches. Memo to Firestone: Hire...
...were positively moribund in September and finished the season by losing seven in a row. They have righted themselves somewhat in these playoffs, but a team that lost a total of two games in their last two playoff runs has already lost four in this one. The pitching (excepting Rivera) is weaker, the hitting still waking up. Not until the seventh-inning explosion that clinched the ALCS in Game Six did the Yankee bats begin to remind me of old times. (And the hero was ex-Brave and ex-Indian David Justice, a midseason arrival. Not quite as nostalgic...