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After Farkes was selected by his hometown Boston Red Sox as a draft-eligible sophomore in the 39th round in June—far lower than many baseball insiders has projected—Harvard’s single-season and career home run king opted to honor his contract with the Gatemen in hopes of raising his stock...
...Ohio, Edwards made the same point in a way that would be understood in any schoolyard: "We need a President who will lead the world, not bully it." Asked a question about outsourcing during his interview with TIME, Edwards talked about what it did to the soul of his hometown when the paper mill where his father worked closed down. When he finished, Kerry couldn't resist jumping in with a mini-seminar on trade policy that included references to the fine print of the antidumping and antisurge laws. But at least Kerry answered the question...
...started sewing at an early age. It was after my mother Raheeja's mastery of the needle arts caught the attention of our neighbors in Lake Charles, La., my hometown of some 13,000 people. They had noticed the finely tailored handmade clothing my mother fashioned for her family and the linens she tatted and embroidered. A handful of local parents asked if she would pass on her expertise to their daughters...
...context in disparaging the U.S. forces' "retreat" from Fallujah and its choosing "not to pursue" Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and his army. The U.S. military reacted the way it did because it was being criticized for causing civilian casualties. Also, al-Sadr was hiding in his hometown, Najaf, in one of the holiest Shi'ite mosques. I have no doubt that U.S. forces could have made Fallujah a ghost town and leveled the mosque in Najaf with al-Sadr in it, but then what would Klein have said? Rodney Schulling Chisinau, Moldova Culpability or Shame? You wrote about...
...later parts of his film, Moore returns to his hometown, Flint, Mich., where Lila Lipscomb, whose soldier son has died in Iraq, begins to question, with great poignancy, what his sacrifice...