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Accustomed to Harvard students’ propensity to date sparingly and marry older, I was floored to discover, while catching up on hometown gossip, that many of the people I had gone to high school with were planning to get married in the next few years. Their high school relationships, which I previously viewed as mere juvenile affairs, had become more than that—they were the beginnings of their future...
...apart as friends. Instead, we’ve simply chosen to reapply our leisure time. Collectively, we have somehow found ourselves relocated to—dare I say it—more “adult” venues: bars, other cities, and less familiar blocks within our sprawling hometown. Unconsciously, we left Kips Bay to embrace the idea of doing new things with other people: other friends, complete strangers, and our classmates and roommates from college...
...Wehbe's hometown of Beirut was, in many ways, a kind of Middle Eastern New York: a vibrant cultural capital where an educated homegrown populace rubbed elbows with a parade of jet-setting foreigners. By contrast, the far more conservative Damascus gives off an Arab-flavored Soviet vibe, from the paranoid residents and omnipresent secret police to the 30-year-old junkers rolling along the streets. The flow of refugees from Beirut to Damascus, therefore, has made for an odd tableau: the normally dreary city is suddenly teeming with sharply dressed Lebanese and foreigners figuring out their next move...
...corrupt local government. Business is succeeding because the people, especially the local workforce, have taken their fortunes into their own hands. Arabinda Pradhan New Delhi In "My lost world," author Aravind Adiga noted the uncertainty he feels now when looking at the profoundly changed city of Mangalore, his provincial hometown. I feel the same way when I visit the city. Why do people who get out of small towns like that not want to go back? I asked a few friends who have left Mangalore. Their reasons varied from a feeling that the talents and knowledge gained over the years...
...Defense Forces (IDF) generals when he pushed to reopen a long-closed commercial crossing point into Gaza and advocated talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Before the present crisis began, he and Olmert were heavily criticized for failing to stem rocket fire from Gaza into Israeli towns - including the hometown where Peretz returned every night to sleep. When he slept, that is. Aides said then, and military officials say now, that Peretz sleeps little, putting in extra hours to micromanage military affairs...