Then there's young lads like Alex Wakely and David Willey, mixing together to form a winning side.
If you're a fan of mystery novels or race novels, or novels period, you're going to like Alex Powell.
But other gang members, like Alex Vasquez of the Compton Varrio Tres, doubts he will ever escape the neighborhood alive.
Wave Glider robots, like Alex, could potentially improve such forecasts by measuring water temperature in the oceans surrounding a storm.
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Conspiracy theorists like Alex Jones, who exploded into the mainstream last week with his antics on CNN, are nothing new to British journalist Jon Ronson.
There are a few obvious picks from the still-active or recently retired pool: players like Alex Rodriguez and Manny Ramirez, Randy Johnson, Greg Maddux and Ken Griffey Jr.
Airlines have canceled more than 1, 600 flights, leaving passengers like Alex Thompson, who had hoped to take a flight to San Francisco, with plenty of time on their hands.
But now, right-handed hitters like Alex Rodriguez are forced to deal with the shift, seeing a mass of infielders in the left-field space where he used to deposit soft line drives for hits.
What are the qualities that make ordinary players like Sir Alex Ferguson, Arsene Wenger and Jose Mourinho brilliant managers?
Super Linda is a place to watch rich men flirt with young women and buy them tasty drinks with funny names, like the Alex Comfort (rum, sloe gin, orange juice, and bitters) and Blue Skies, No Candy (tequila, gin, apricot liqueur, and Cocchi Americano).
The bigger challenge will be keeping T-Mobile customers like my friend, Alex.
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"Imagine driving a convertible car with a fireman standing on the bonnet and a hose pointed at your face -- that's what it's like on deck, " said Alex Thomson, one of Britain's top yachtsmen.
Many other people also showed real courage in talking to us, like 18-year-old Alex, who broke down telling us how much he hated his body, and Nicola, tall and as beautiful as a model, who lost seven stone.
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United manager Alex Ferguson admitted recently he would like to see Ronaldo return to Old Trafford, but the Madeira-born striker has moved to quell talk of an imminent move by saying he wishes to see out the remainder of his contract at Real, which expires in 2015.
From what I'd heard about Alex's parents, it sounded like we were on track to repeat history.
United's legendary Scottish manager Alex Ferguson was also honored, having like Giggs been part of all 12 title triumphs.
The visitors never looked like getting back into the game as Blues boss Alex McLeish suffered a defeat at the hands of Coyle - the man he recommended for the Burnley job.
So we are so proud of Alex and the thousands of young people just like him that are improving their lives.
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And others might complain that the Alex Knapp on screen looks and sounds nothing like the one they have in their head.
Their younger son, Alex, now 12, said he would like to spend time with his parents and be tucked into bed at night.
The average age of the regulars will be nearly 33, and that doesn't include Alex Rodriguez, who's 37 but played like he was 137 last October.
He suggests, but only in passing, that it was junior coaches as much as Sir Alex who spotted and polished the talent of young players like David Beckham and Ryan Giggs.
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In addition to more established groups like the Leadership Summit (led by Frank Carbajal), and Hispanic-Net (led by Michael Lopez and Margarita Quihuis), we now have emerging groups like LAM (Giovanni Dubois), Silicon Valley Latino (Alex Ontivero, Jose Posadas, and Sergio Domeyko), and the Latino Startup Alliance (Jesse Martinez).
"It's like getting to clerk for the Supreme Court, " gushes Godin acolyte Alex Krupp, 24, who commutes to Godinland from his parents' home in New Canaan, Conn.
Sitting in the back of a school bus, the filmmakers, using a Canon 5D Mark II, which looks like a still camera, managed to shoot a rubbery little heavyweight beating Alex.
Like so many banging the drum for a different kind of computing education, Alex Hope harks back to the 1980s when he learned to program using the BBC Micro.
But Liberal Democrat deputy leader Alex Folkes said he did not think job losses would be "anything like" the 135 predicted by Mr Masters.
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