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...Hometown: A small town in Minnesota—everything here seems simple and organized...
...sudden-death victory over the New York Giants in the 1958 NFL championship game, still regarded by many as the greatest football game ever played; of a heart attack; in suburban Baltimore. Unitas broke passing records at the University of Louisville but was deemed too small by his hometown Pittsburgh Steelers, who cut him in 1955. The Colts found him playing for $6 a game in a semipro league and signed him to be their third-stringer. Two years later, his precise passes and menacing game face rallied the Colts past the Giants in a match that helped spark...
...Galluccio conceded last night, he told supporters he had been hurt by a “big margin” in his hometown and had not made up the difference elsewhere. But he pledged his political career was not over...
...Demakis-Decker race, the local names have gone beyond the political. Decker, who is young, progressive and well-funded, recruited the support of hometown boys turned movie stars Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. Damon recorded an answering machine message pitching her candidacy and Affleck endorsed her in campaign literature...
...military. Once U.S. forces captured major cities in northern and southern Iraq, ground troops would advance to Baghdad for the expected end-game. And there, if Washington's war planners had their way, Saddam's regime would collapse, and victory would come swiftly. If Saddam fled to, say, his hometown of Tikrit, 100 miles north, his army might well give up the fight. The optimists' final scenario: allied caravans rolling through Baghdad, greeted by thousands of liberated, cheering Iraqis (an updated version of Paris' liberation after...