Word: hometowner
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...Pennsylvania native, Vilsack graduated from Hamilton College and Albany Law School. He moved to his wife’s hometown of Mount Pleasant, Iowa, where he was elected mayor in 1987 after the city’s then-mayor was killed...
...orphanage as a baby and adopted by local parents. While earning his bachelor's degree in history at Hamilton College in upstate New York, he met his future wife, Christie. He went on to earn a law degree from Albany School of Law and the couple moved to her hometown in Iowa...
...tell you, without a doubt, that some of the best lessons I've learned in life are from playing basketball on Chicago's inner-city playgrounds. There's nothing like it." - on what the 6-foot-5-inch Duncan has learned playing basketball at venues all around his hometown, Chicago Tribune, July...
...Park neighborhood, where the Obamas have lived for several years. He went to the same private school the President-elect's daughters attended until recently. After Harvard, where he was co-captain of the basketball team, Duncan spent a year playing the sport in Australia before returning to his hometown in 1992. Within short order, he was garnering national attention for starting an innovative - and successful - public school, Ariel Community Academy. He was tapped by Chicago Mayor Richard Daley to run the city's schools in 2001. (Read more about Obama and education...
...Breininger, 21, had disappeared a month earlier from his hometown in the southwestern city of Neunkirchen. According to German investigators the former skateboard rider then resurfaced in Egypt, where he tried to learn Arabic. A few weeks later, investigators say, he traveled, via Iran, to the tribal areas in northern Pakistan. Officers at Germany's Federal Crime Agency believe he has since received training in weapons and explosives. Fearing that he could slip back into Germany to carry out an attack, they have put him at the top of Germany's most-wanted list. (Read TIME's Top 10 lists...