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...team. Judging from the results, the move paid dividends. Rathgeber and freshman Derick Chui each won three events, while Wollner and junior Eric Lynch each grabbed two more. Wollner, a Manhattan native, won the 200 and 400 freestyles by only tenths of a second in front of a hometown crowd. “The loss at Columbia [two years ago] was really embarrassing for me especially—it was in front of a hometown crowd, and I lost a really close race at the end,” Wollner said. “This year, I pulled...
...Nestle's case, the risks lurk literally everywhere. The company dates back to 1867--when Henri Nestle started selling a cereal he had invented for infants--and is still based in his hometown, Vevey, Switzerland, on Lake Geneva. But it has long outgrown its Swiss roots and is today perhaps the most multinational of multinationals. Its products are available in almost every nation in the world, and its executive board is made up of two Americans, two Austrians, a Briton, a Dutchman, a German, a Mexican, two Spaniards and a Swede. Yet its corporate culture remains firmly grounded...
House: Dunster Concentration: History and Literature Hometown: San Diego, Calif. Ideal Date: Salem Witch Museum...nothing helps a relationship along more than learning about a community in terror. Then take a detour through Marblehead to see where they actually filmed that ’90s tour de force, “Hocus Pocus.” It doesn’t have to be exactly that, but it would definitely be witch-themed. Best way for a girl to get your attention: Be emotionally unavailable or dating somebody else. Works every time. Where to find you on a Saturday night...
...Wolff says an even larger bloc comprises Europeans attracted to American sports. Some, he says, have lived in the U.S., while others have such a passion for all sports that their horizons have expanded. For other Europeans, the National Hockey League, say, offers the best opportunity to see their hometown skaters. "In the NHL, 217 players--30% of the total--come from Europe," Wolff notes. "In countries like the Czech Republic, Finland, Sweden and others where hockey is the big sport, being able to watch their countrymen in NHL games is huge...
...wife, he asks her to “call it,” in a voice that whispers rumors of the hell that exists inside. The Gabriel to Bardem’s Mephistopheles is Tommy Lee Jones ’69, the aging sheriff of Brolin’s hometown. Jones follows the trail of bodies just a step behind Bardem, hoping to protect Brolin from the unstoppable evil. Jones provides a psychological grounding point, a man who has seen more years of bloodshed than any should, and is powerless to do anything but crack hollow jokes in the face...