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While at Harvard, Golden chose not to write for The Crimson, but spent his summers working at a local newspaper in his hometown of Amherst, Mass...
...Hometown: Honolulu...
...video games, the Internet competing for their entertainment dollars. Having conquered the "big top," Ringling's latest growth strategy is to think small. "We're going to every nook and cranny we can," says Feld. Rome (pop. 34,980) was the first of 58 towns scheduled on its new Hometown Edition tour, a third traveling production of the 134-year-old circus, the last survivor of an epic business struggle that once featured dozens of companies competing furiously across the country...
Feld has targeted an additional 100 small markets to include on future Hometown tours. "I like to think of ourselves like Wal-Mart," he says. It's not a bad strategy. Wal-Mart may be the world's largest company, but it got that way by first dominating small towns. Indeed, in many places, heading to Wal-Mart is an evening's entertainment. Even with a smaller show, Feld figures he can top that. With reporting by Paige Bowers/Rome
Capitalizing on both his hometown, Deland, to one side, and acres of unsettled land to the other, Brunnig lived the dream of most young children, with half days typical and afternoons in the sun commonplace...