Word: hometown
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...graduate of Harvard and Oxford, Isaacson learned journalism the old way: as a police reporter for the New Orleans Times-Picayune, his hometown paper, and later for the London Sunday Times. He landed at TIME in 1978, contributed some memorable coverage of the 1980 presidential campaign, and has won three Overseas Press Club Awards for his writing. Co-author of The Wise Men, a collective study of six men who shaped American foreign policy during the cold war, he has written a biography of Henry Kissinger that is due out next fall...
This summer, I endured an utterly mediocre Cobb salad at a restaurant in my hometown of Lincoln, Nebraska. There wasn't enough bleu cheese in the salad, but I'm not going to hold a grudge against the owner. I'd still support Sen. Bob Kerrey for president...
...Estonians, Lithuanians and Latvians might be going their own way, but I'd long assumed that once the epidemic of secessionism had run its course, the Ukrainians would remain citizens of a huge country with its capital in Moscow. Such is the conventional wisdom almost everywhere, certainly in my hometown of Washington...
...largest police dragnet in Colombian history on his tail, Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria surrendered quietly to authorities last week. After handing over his pistol to officials on the outskirts of Medellin, he was whisked by helicopter to a special prison in the Andean foothills. There, overlooking his boyhood hometown of Envigado, the man regarded as Colombia's No. 1 drug thug will serve time on as yet unannounced charges...
Still, Leningraders may not get their wish. The Russian parliament must approve the change, and the Supreme Soviet insists that it will have the last word, in this case nyet. Come what may, nothing is likely to change the way the city's dwellers refer to their hometown. They have always called it, simply and affectionately, Peter...