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Alex Salinas

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Gridiron Fever

FIU administrators think spending millions on a football program will do wonders for their school, and they'll sideline anyone who disagrees

By Robert Andrew Powell and Alex Salinas
Aug 19, 1999

About 250 freshmen fidget and murmur in the cavernous ballroom at Florida International University. The newcomers wait for the next segment of an orientation session FIU requires all incoming students to attend. Hanging on a wall above the stage is the university's mascot, a large panther baring its fangs, slashing...
Shell Game

Bill Ahern and his fellow turtle rangers are helping keep endangered crawlers from extinction

By Alex Salinas
Jul 1, 1999

Bill Ahern maneuvers his truck around the sand dunes of the Miami Beach shoreline. He's rolling through North Shore Open Space Park on 79th Street just after 6:00 a.m. The orange sun peeks over the horizon. Shadowy lavenders tinge the columns of clouds. When the still-sleepy 49-year-old looks at the...
A Mind in Exile

Andres Orta believes the true enemies of the Cuban people are Jews. And blacks. Nice.

By Alex Salinas
Jun 10, 1999

For the past hour or so Andres Orta has been trying to persuade the listeners of radio station La Poderosa (WWFE-AM 670) that the reason for Cuba's suffering isn't communism. Instead it's something called the "new world order." He explains the island's leaders are entangled in an international conspiracy led...