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American-born, but of Dominican ancestry, Alex Rodriguez is a shortstop for the Seattle Mariners. He signed right out of high school with the team for $1.3 million in 1993.

The Imports

José Luis Villegas and Marcos Breton

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Hear No Evil, See No Evil: Early U.S. Policy in Yugoslavia

Maud Beelman

The office of fugitive Mayan Indians called Community of Population in Resistance (CPR) has mixed influences: the filing system is Western-style, but the names and categories seem copied from a Politburo manual.

The Mayan Apparatchiks

Anna Husarska

The music school in Ilidza, a Serb suburb, burns the day before the official handover on March 12.

Pitfalls of Peace in Bosnia

Maud Beelman

Betty Jo Dulaney has been running the Tunica County Literacy Center since 1985.

Gamblers’ Needs Focus a Town on its Reading Failures

Laura Parker

"When you're at this level, nobody can do anything for you because you are nobody," said José Paulino, 19, a new recruit from the Dominican Republic at his first major league spring training camp. "This is the profession I chose and I don't know how to do anything else. And they are the ones who decide whether you are going to today, tomorrow or the next day."

The Dream: Trying to Make it in the Major Leagues

José Luis Villegas and Marcos Breton