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...most of those in attendance yesterday, all that mattered was that baseball had at last returned to the Hub. The fact that the Hometown Heroes actually ended up winning yesterday's home opener was merely the icing on the cake...
Instead, Terry has opted to leave two days earlier by taking a shuttle to JFK International Airport and then transferring to a start-up airline, which will fly him to Tampa. The drive from Tampa to Terry's hometown is two and a half hours...
...also miffed that John Paul II will visit a Palestinian refugee camp outside Bethlehem, where they fear he may make remarks affirming the right of refugees to return to their homes - which, in the case of Palestinian refugees in the West Bank, are in Israel. Even Christ's hometown of Nazareth will require some delicate diplomacy: The Israeli authorities have allowed local Muslims to begin building a mosque in the shadow of the Basilica of the Annunciation - the site where the Angel Gabriel is said to have appeared to Mary - over the objections of local Christians and the Vatican...
...department-store chain, based in Minneapolis, Minn., has become the talk of Madison Avenue, not to mention Main Street. And this year, as Target nears the opening of its 1,000th store, Graves has been joined by the doyen of design, Philippe Starck, another Alessi regular, and Target's hometown hipsters, the young design team Blu Dot. Says Dziersk: "This is the principle that began with the Bauhaus: everyone should have access to beautiful things...
Navin finally succumbed to his illness on Monday in his hometown of Fort Worth, Texas, at the age of 23. For those of us in the Class of 1999 who knew him, the news has been hard to handle...