Word: hometowner
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...home," says Crist, 50, sitting in shirtsleeves in his office, beneath a painting of his Greek immigrant grandfather when he was a shoe-shine boy. He speaks daily on the phone with his father Charles, who in the 1960s was the only white physician in Crist's hometown of St. Petersburg to volunteer to help sports teams at segregated, all-black high schools--and who advised his son during the Terri Schiavo spectacle in 2005, when Crist was Florida's elected attorney general. "I told Charlie, 'Look, I've seen the brain scans on that girl,'" says the elder Crist...
...Still, if the Vatican?s collective nerves are a bit frayed these days, it?s not hard to understand why. The recently chosen President of the Italian Bishops Conference, Angelo Bagnasco, has been repeatedly targeted with graffiti-scrawled threats in his hometown of Genoa and elsewhere. On Saturday, Bagnasco received an envelope containing bullets...
...city Marion Barry High. I have a sweatshirt that asks, “Washington, D.C.: Wanna be mayor?” And the other day, I noted that an old friend’s Facebook profile lists “the bitch set me up” as her hometown. I can always get a laugh from Googling the words “Marion Barry + quotation,” which yields dozens of sites with the same ridiculous list of excerpts. Many admit to skepticism about the material’s authenticity, but the excerpts are amusing nonetheless. For example...
House: Cabot Concentration: English and American Languages and Literatures Hometown: Richmond, VA Ideal Date: Zhang Ziyi, Anna Karina, and I go to a concert. I make jokes and they laugh and touch my arm. Best way for a guy/girl to get your attention: “Whoa, are those eyes for real?!” Where to find you on a Saturday night: Surrounded by an entourage of adoring girls and approving chums, I set fire to Mather House on a whim and pee it out. Everyone cheers and then we all go out for ice cream because I have...
...hometown advantage held up: Chang was judged the champion of the episode...