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...lawmakers may object when spending more for counterterrorism means losing an FBI agent in their hometown who works on an antidrug task force. Other shuffling could incite a revolt in Congress. "If you try in any significant way to hinder the civil-rights division, that would be over the bodies of Senators on the Judiciary Committee," says a former Justice Department official. Which sounds like fightin' words--perfect for someone who seems more a general than an attorney...
...Rick Levin spoke so graciously at my inauguration that I wouldn’t dream of predicting the obvious—except to say that New Haven is my hometown, and I intend to be fiercely disloyal to the home team...
Contributing to Doyle’s anticipation, the championships were held in his hometown of St. Petersburg, Fla. at the University of Central Florida, where his sister coaches the sailing team...
Morris parents are a constant source of motivation and support for him. Theyve attended the past 24 games, travelling from his hometown of Sterling, VA. Morris has always been close with his parents and his older sister Jemma, whom he calls after every game. The decision to attend boarding school was difficult for Morris, but he knows that it was for the best. The first few months at boarding school I was not happy at all. But no matter how hard things are, I know that my parents are working 10 times harder just so I can be where...
Meanwhile, back in Swenson's hometown of Rockford, Ill., another Charlotte, the plain teenage daughter of Swenson's childhood friend, drifts between an affair with a mysterious math teacher, an older man of shifting and suspect identity, and study sessions with her uncle, a history professor. The latter's vision of a post-industrial America infatuated with "a headlong forward motion that was inherently catastrophic" nudges him toward madness. The math teacher is eventually revealed to be a terrorist "sleeper" gone awol, an ominous visitor from an unnamed part of the world filled with "dust, rage, starved zealous faces, languages...