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James Oliver (with cousin Alicia Labat) SAN FRANCISCO The cousins have managed to transfer from two New Orleans universities to one in San Francisco. For Alicia, a Californian, it is a homecoming; for James, an abrupt, indefinite exile from his beloved hometown...
President Raul Alfonsin had already settled in for a long, lazy Easter weekend when the news reached him in his provincial hometown of Chascomas. About 130 officers and soldiers, led by Army Major Ernesto Barreiro, were holed up in an army barracks near the city of Cordoba, some 400 miles northwest of Buenos Aires. Barreiro had just been cashiered for refusing to obey a civilian court subpoena to answer charges of human-rights atrocities committed in the 1970s during the army's war against alleged leftist subversives. Now, angered by the ongoing human-rights prosecutions, he and his fellow rebels...
...Remember American men's tennis? When Andy Roddick lost to unseeded Luxembourgian Gilles Muller in the first round of this year's U.S. Open, critics decried the lack of hometown talent. Was a fading Andre Agassi, 35, all the U.S. had? Did the country really have to count on Taylor Dent? But Blake's stunning run to the U.S. Open quarterfinals has fulfilled an American dream: Blake vs. Agassi, center court on Wednesday night, the most anticipated American vs. American match since 2001, when Pete Sampras beat Agassi in an Open quarterfinal...
...Marxist Perspective on Darkness on the Edge of Town," "Steinbeck and Springsteen" and "The Boss and the Bible." Speakers include rock critic Dave Marsh, touted as a "Louie Louie expert," and Frank Stefanko, who has photographed Springsteen a lot. Attendees may also visit the Stone Pony, Springsteen's storied hometown rock club; alas, he's not on the bill. Next semester at Monmouth: Desconstructing Clay Aiken...
...annoying questions. Having me write about them must be just a really disconcerting experience. Having some guy you've never met before, from a different country, sitting there writing stuff that you might never get to read. I think the units that ended up with embeds from their hometown, it was a lot different. If you're the guy from the Boston Globe, and you're with the Boston infantry...they have a reason. They want you to write so that their folks can read about them in their hometown newspaper. With me, it was very different. I was from...