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...lower in the draft than anticipated following a sophomore season in which he batted .342 with a league-leading 14 home runs, most likely due to the questions about signability that inevitably surround a draft-eligible Harvard sophomore. But the Boston native was thrilled to be taken by his hometown team, and negotiation talks quickly heated...
...talks] were really serious,” Farkes said. “The chance to get drafted by your hometown team is amazing, and the chance it’ll happen again is next to nothing...
Since high school—in her hometown of Enid, Okla.—Dell has been involved in a number of activities that include running. In those days, she started the cross-country team at her high school because “that’s one of my main passions—I love running,” Dell said...
...breakout star Brian Edwards was far away in his hometown of Los Gatos, Calif., spending his junior spring semester doing absolutely nothing...
Over the past year I have found myself on the front lines of the struggle over Islam's future in America. Last November, my mother, niece and I walked through the front door of our hometown mosque in Morgantown, W.Va., and prayed in the main sanctuary. In so doing we defied a policy that women enter through a back door and pray in an isolated balcony. Then, in the spring, my father resigned from the board of the mosque to protest speeches spewed from the pulpit that were hateful to non-Muslims. As a result of our protests, my family...