Word: hometown
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...parents again, this time to scrap the plans. She and Mahmud had decided to stay in New York, she explained. In reality, her husband was already in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, having flown there three days earlier from New York's Kennedy airport. He then made his way to his hometown in Egypt, where he was hauled into custody by government agents, who, according to Mahmud's wife, stripped him naked, hung him by his feet and burned his genitals. "The Egyptians told him that if he didn't confess ((to the bombing)), they would rape me and his mother," says...
...also a pride-booster when someone does something very special in front of the hometown crowd. Such was the case for Harvard freshman Meg Kassakian, a graduate of Newton North High School. Kassakian's former assistant coach Don Satter came to Ohiri Field to watch his former star in action and brought another high school team. Satter and his squad got to see Kassakian beat a couple of Eagle players and pass the ball to wide-open sophomore Megan Hall, who beat the Eagle goalie for the third Crimson goal that sealed the Crimson victory...
...family's return to our country of origin began on a somber note. Barely five hours after we landed in our hometown of Durban, a dinner at a relative's house was interrupted by a phone call. We were told that a woman in the neighborhood had been murdered. A thief had apparently broken into a home a few blocks away, unexpectedly ran into one of the owners of the house, and strangled her. He committed his crime quickly, cleanly. It might have taken place in any of the nearby houses, including the one where I had stayed...
...life, out there beyond the hype with only two little vocal cords to depend on. But the sporting life, which both men cherish, is their release. Nobody, for example, dared approach Pavarotti last week, because he was directing a horse-jumping competition in his hometown of Modena. He wasn't riding -- what horse save Bucephalus could carry him? He doesn't care: "I have always loved being around horses, and now I'm crazy about them...
...shirts and Lenny sweats, in addition to authorized editions of his records, books and Harvard lectures. (The paraphernalia does have a pedagogical purpose: proceeds go to the Bernstein Education Through the Arts Fund, established in 1990 to encourage arts education in the schools.) On Wednesday, Bernstein's adopted hometown will honor his legacy when it renames a stretch of West 65th Street near Lincoln Center "Leonard Bernstein Place," putting Bernstein in New York City's street-naming pantheon along with W.C. Handy, Malcolm X and Harry Van Arsdale Jr. Even the normally staid Carnegie Hall is getting into...