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...Thai professor's training regime was also a far cry from the strictly choreographed routines of the top teams. He skied weekends in Vermont, and weekdays on a deserted baseball field in his adopted hometown of Narbarth, Penn. In the summer, he cycled, used a Stairmaster, and played soccer and basketball with his university colleagues. He didn't confess his Olympic aspirations to them until days before he left for Salt Lake. "Of course not, he smiles shyly. "I thought most likely it would not happen...
...Hometown: She must be from the States, judging from the fact that she’s got a pro-choice poster up. Very rarely would an international student have something like that up. I would argue that she’s a New Yorker, as half the school seems to be. I doubt she’s from the city, but rather from some random town in Long Island or something. Her room isn’t eccentric enough that I’d guess she’s from a major city...
...early 1990s, I attended a Washington lunch at which Admiral William Crowe, who had just retired as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, talked about taking his Soviet counterpart to visit the admiral's hometown in Oklahoma. The Russian general wanted to know what holiday was being celebrated. None, Crowe told him; his neighbors just flew the flag from their stoops as a matter of course...
These are painful times for Houston. Not only must it watch as former executives of Enron, the once celebrated hometown company, turn on one another, take the Fifth or claim memory loss before Congress, the city must also figure out how, after being so marked by Enron's presence, to cope after the disgrace. A guide to Enron's Houston...
Birthplace of Noch’s recipe: Abruzzi, Italy (DiCenso’s hometown...