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Nothing makes me feel sorrier for the once powerful local bosses of each political party than the spectacle of a modern nominating convention. In their glory days, these wily neighborhood sloggers would listen to speeches, size up the appeal of each candidate against hometown tastes, wheel, deal and finally make the thousands of individual decisions that would eventually choose the nominee...
...live, at a baseball stadium and in a football arena, back home. "I want to raise the bar for the sport of swimming as high as it can get in the U.S.," he said. "We've come a long way; I heard that in Ravens stadium [in Baltimore, Phelps' hometown], they were watching the 400 medley relay live with 70,000 people. I heard that at the Cincinnati Reds game yesterday, they showed the 100 fly live. I heard there was an announcement at Yankee Stadium. People all over the place are saying that...
...meriting their share of attention at home, too. Zheng, who could stroll the streets of the capital unrecognized a couple years ago, now requires a bodyguard. And Li's Aug. 16 upset of Venus Williams has made the highlights reel of Chinese Olympic T.V. In Beijing, it seems these hometown heroes aren't so different from the Williams sisters, after...
...clone of her former self. "I thought people would be honest enough to see me as a person who was trying to do something good and not as a celebrity," a tearful McKinney told the Associated Press in a phone call. Ignoring the fact that police in her hometown of Newland, Avery County in North Carolina still want to talk to her about various other charges on file from recent years, McKinney still proclaims her innocence and calls her capers of 30 years ago "a figment of the tabloid press ... I don't want that garbage in with the puppy...
Founder Kevin Caruth started Urban Gentry last summer, and since then his clientele has included everyone from style-conscious tourists eager to sniff out the capital's hidden boutiques to Londoners keen on rediscovering their hometown. "The walks listed on our site are meant as a guideline - we'll consider all requests," says Caruth, who once set up a day-long tour for an Irish restaurateur intent on exploring London's noodle bars...