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Guillen tabs Rivera as AL stopper

How many people can say they've been on a picnic with Leon Trotsky Leon the-Bolshevik-c ommander-of-the -Red-Army-who-g ot-murdered-wit h-an-ice-pick Trotsky I know of one. In the 1930s, Tina Martin of Salt Lake City was a little girl in Mexico City. Her dad was a book seller and art dealer whose good friends included husband and wife artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo.Rivera, a friend of revolutionaries , invited Trotsky, who'd been exiled by his political nemesis, Joseph Stalin, to his home in Mexico. So Trotsky moved south of the border. And one day Martin and her mom and dad and Kahlo and Rivera and Trotsky and his bod...

New York Yankees closer Mariano Rivera undergoes a precautionary MRI exam for mild discomfort in his right elbow.

Notes: Rivera could get even better

The murals Diego Rivera executed for the National Institute of Cardiology in Mexico City (figures 1 and 2) are a testament to his talents as a painter as well as to his prodigious energy. The History of Cardiology consists of two panels of 6 m by 4 m and were completed in time for the inauguration of the new institute building on 18 April 1944.

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