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...really happened. If you don’t believe me, just read the Sports Illustrated column to learn how John Rogers—CEO of Ariel Capital Management—beat his hometown??s biggest sports star. And what about the movie “Invincible”, in which Vince Papale, having played only high school football for one year, managed to make the Philadelphia Eagles? Also true...
...decided as a hopeful pre-frosh that college would be all about assimilation, even if it killed me. After years of being held back by a family a tad too eccentric for my hometown??s comfort, I was ready to joyfully jump into the mainstream. With my creepy ability to gauge the general atmosphere of a place and then adopt it as my own, I decided even before my freshman year that Harvard was brimming with scrappy people who like to go hiking and recycle plastics and give and receive head lamps as gifts. Yet one rather large...
...Great Falls Tribune, where in past months editors have thrice given front-page coverage to Molly, the cow who escaped a packing plant, went on a many-hour rampage through town, and eventually eluded her fate by winning enough hearts to buy her amnesty in a pasture in my hometown??s outskirts. The Molly mayhem subsided, but then there was the “problem badger” who took up residence in the lower South side, a saga which produced such headlines as “Woman Can’t Get Rid of Burrowing Beast...
While Augustus and Osterman draw fans from the more popular sports, Thorlakson poses a different problem for Corriero. Not only is she a fellow Canadian, but she also hails from the same hometown??Langley, British Columbia—and attended the same high school—Walnut Grove—as Corriero’s former teammate, Raimondi...
Joyce T. Bowden gave up everything—cloistering herself for seven years in Montana’s mountains and forgoing her family and hometown??so that, by the age at which some are reaching the apex of their careers, she could be a rookie...