• She leaves home, comfortable in her new sophistication as the city-born wife of this Arkansas cotton-picker.

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  • If they were, then a combative ethnic metropolitan New York City-born politician would have headed the GOP ticket in 2008 and will again in 2012.

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  • This may explain the behavior of New York City-born rapper Sean "Diddy" Combs, who moved upstate as a child after the murder of his father.

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  • Though the city's Cuban-born auxiliary bishop, Monsignor Agustin Roman, says he will not be aboard, criticism has been muted.

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  • Though Mr Bellow is Canadian-born, the city of Chicago has always been a vital part of his inspiration, and his biographer captures the ebullience of life in an immigrant neighbourhood in the 1920s and 1930s, where the strains of survival were more than compensated by a bustling energy and sense of shared possibility.

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  • But he said he felt his links with Senna - who was born in Sao Paulo, the city that hosts this weekend's race - go far deeper than that.

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  • Given that the population has increased by one-and-a-half million in the past 25 years, and two-and-a-half million people in this city were born in other countries, some of which are at war with each other, it is a miracle the place is as peaceful as it is.

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  • Manal al-Sharif was born in the holy city of Mecca to a family of "conservative" but "regular Muslims, " as she puts it.

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  • Before his move to City from Inter Milan during the summer the Sicily-born Balotelli was subjected to racist abuse by Juventus supporters, who hung banners in their stadium last year which read: "A negro cannot be Italian".

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  • In 1894, George Meany, the first president of the AFL-CIO, was born in New York City.

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  • Leicester-born Neal began his career with Stoke City, where he made over 80 appearances.

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  • She was born in Manchester (a city whose pre-industrial character is marvellously evoked in the early chapters) and was set to work as a cloth-cutter.

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  • Ana Tiwary, a filmmaker in her early 30s who lives in Sydney, moved to the city from the United States to be with her Australian-born husband in 2007.

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  • Benny Chia, the Singapore-born organizer of Hong Kong's annual City Festival thinks so.

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  • The Doncaster-born forward arrived at Leeds in 2006 from York City Knights and has made 69 appearances for the club so far.

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  • The Cameroon-born 26-year-old was released by Stoke City in the summer but opted to join Carlisle after a trial with Cardiff during the summer.

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  • With his partner, Russian-born billionaire Leonard Blavatnik, he has bought up four city blocks along South Beach's Collins Avenue, including the '40s-era Saxony Hotel, and enlisted a roster of A-list talent to construct another Faena district.

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  • In 2011, a man named Jose Pimentel was arrested on terrorism charges in a plot to bomb various sites around the city (his trial is pending), and in 2012 a Bangladeshi-born student named Quazi Nafis tried to detonate a bomb in front of the New York Federal Reserve Bank (he pleaded guilty and now faces a life sentence).

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  • Afterward, a senior officer laid a wreath on a memorial to five pre-Revolutionary War royal governors who had been born in the historic city.

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  • The video is dull and grainy, but it shows real-life drama: A comeuppance for David Ji, an entrepreneur who built a billion-dollar business importing dirt-cheap DVD players from a booming China, where he was born, and selling them at Wal-Mart and Circuit City stores in the U.S., his adopted home for two decades.

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  • The video is dull and grainy, but it shows real-life drama: A comeuppance for David Ji, a celebrated U.S.-bred entrepreneur who built a billion-dollar business importing dirt-cheap DVD players from a booming China, where he was born, and selling them at Wal-Mart and Circuit City stores in the U.S., his adopted home for two decades.

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  • First Fahey headed wide when Shay Given missed Craig Gardner's cross and the Dublin-born midfielder also saw his low shot kept out by the Manchester City keeper.

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  • We think of the next generation of tech start-ups, born in Silicon Valley, Austin, Seattle or another progressive city.

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