Word: localizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wait-listed. But without any other place to go--Thorpe did not apply anywhere else--he attended a local college for a year. Eventually, he transferred to Harvard...
...while Thorpe says Harvard was well worth the wait, at the end of his sophomore year he took a leave of absence and returned to Pennsylvania. There he joined the local Teamsters union and worked at a truck terminal...
...Bush went from Yale to oil exploration in Texas, and before Yale he attended Texas [elementary and secondary] schools," Will said, verifying the frontrunner's local credentials...
Despite Edwards' claim that Harvard is "not a local school, not even for people from Cambridge," Mayor Francis H. Duehay '55, now in his 14th term on the Cambridge City Council and his third term as the city's chief, believes his connection to the University contributed to his political rise...
Similarly, Rep. Barney Frank '61, (D-Mass.), who attended the College and HLS, said his Harvard education has served him well in politics - at least at the local level...