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Meanwhile, Foster continued the discussion by exploring the role that museums played in fostering community, citing evidence from her hometown of Philadelphia. She illustrated art’s potential to unify by recounting an instance in which the inhabitants of Philadelphia joined together to prevent an outside collector from purchasing Thomas Eakin’s painting “The Gross Clinic”—which holds cultural and historical significance for their city—from the Philadelphia Museum...
...Council, a trade group, immediately got calls from consumers across the nation looking to buy edamame at their grocery stores. "Now you can find it in supermarkets all over," says the council's executive director, Linda Funk, who has even seen the immature soybean pods sold near her small hometown of Janesville...
...Semper fidelis," the motto of the Marine Corps, in which Jack served proudly for 37 years, was the motto of his life. He loved his hometown, Johnstown, Pa.; his country; his wife Joyce; his children; and his grandchildren. Giant of the Congress, champion, hero: that was Jack Murtha...
...Name, hometown, dorm, concentration. In the nascence of college life, these four talking points guide many a friendless freshman through awkward encounters with other equally lonely first-years. The four-question introduction sees its heyday during pre-orientation, when wide-eyed Harvard newcomers, equipped with campus maps and crimson lanyards, use the icebreaker with as many classmates as humanly possible. Sometime during the semester, however, this practice of shameless self-introduction and curious inquiry ceases. It is nonsensical for us to terminate generic introductions so soon, which means it is time for the four-point introduction to make a comeback...
...have been among the movement's leaders for decades, have been working for months to hash out language that satisfies the party's often fractious factions. They cite the compact as a contemporary version of the Sharon Statement, a document named for William F. Buckley Jr.'s Connecticut hometown that helped shape the contours of conservatism for the past 50 years. "We recommit ourselves to the ideas of the American Founding," the authors write. "The federal government today ignores the limits of the Constitution, which is increasingly dismissed as obsolete and irrelevant." (See 10 promising GOP stars...