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...Early in his career Mittal was aware of the importance of leverage. After graduating from college in 1976, he set up a 25-employee bicycle-crankshaft factory in his hometown of Ludhiana in the northwestern province of Punjab. Part of the seed capital was $400 from his family?although his late father was a member of India's Parliament, he was no tycoon. After Mittal parlayed the business into one large enough to be creditworthy, he made sure to carry a table tennis paddle in his pocket whenever he visited his local banker. The manager loved to play, so Mittal...
...Jerusalem bus bomb that killed 11 Israelis last Thursday shows what Mitzna is up against. To cast himself as the moderate in this week's Likud primary, where he'll face off against Foreign Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Sharon ordered Israeli troops to close in on Bethlehem, the bomber's hometown. But the military operation was much more restrained than the massive invasions of the spring and summer. The 74-year-old Prime Minister is staking out the political center, because the hard-line Netanyahu and Mitzna have staked out the extremes. Sharon leads in the polls against both...
...Hometown: Trabuco Canyon, Calif...
...Boston skyline stands in sharp contrast to the flat farmlands of southern New Jersey. The din of the streets, bustling with business, replaces the scenic quiet of his hometown of Medford...
When the temperature in Cambridge falls to the point where the rain is so cold that you wonder how it’s not snowing, I long for my hometown of Houston, where it’s still 60-something degrees...