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...Hometown: Kansas City...
Despite hailing from the Bay Area, I rejected popular hometown options such as Stanford, Cal, and Santa Clara, opting instead for the greener pastures of College Park, Md. Though I had to suffer through years of Duke’s domination, it was worth the wait...
...family, headed for a refugee camp in southern Germany where she would live for six years before moving to the United States. This summer she will return, funded by a $10,000 donation from the Kathryn Wasserman Davis Foundation to rebuild a war-devastated athletic center in her hometown, Kolibe Gornje, Bosnia. Kobiljar said she hoped the reconstruction of the athletic center would promote peace by allowing the town to host the neighboring Bosniak, Croat, and Serb communities in competitions and tournaments, increasing interaction between the groups. She said she also hoped her plan would unite and empower the village?...
...fair trial for their jailed relatives. In 1994, Yang explains, her son and three of his friends were arrested by police and charged with the murder of two taxi drivers. After confessing to the crimes, they were swiftly convicted and sentenced to death by a local court in their hometown of Chengde. But Yang's lawyer, Xu Zhiyong, says the confessions were extracted under torture. Xu says this case is one of the most glaring examples of injustice in China, with numerous flaws in the prosecution (the only two pieces of evidence were mysteriously lost) and eyewitness accounts corroborating...
...Back in February, Yang and the other families received a visit from local government officials in their hometown. "We come to the NPC every year and every year we are detained and taken back. But this year was different," she says. "The policemen told us we may get three or five years in prison." Yang is well aware the chances of success are minimal and the danger of imprisonment or worse is serious. But like thousands of fellow petitioners, she says she has no choice. "Of course we still come. Our children are innocent. How could we not come...