The biggest blow to its image: In September favorite son Roger Federer fumbled away his chances at a tennis grand slam.
There, they discussed strategy, as well as Benjamin Graham, a favorite son of Columbia and a founding father of modern investing.
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Louis's favorite son and its congressman since 1974, dropped out the race after his fourth-place finish in the January 19 Iowa caucuses.
We re sticking with another favorite son of Chicago, Michael Jordan.
It started with the assassination of a favorite son, John F.
"North Carolina has lost its favorite son, " Gov. Beverly Perdue said.
On Monday, the sports news was a flurry of week-long victories for Italians in winter sports and the fifth consecutive victory for favorite son, Giorgio Rocca.
The case would be tried in Little Rock, where Clinton is still a favorite son, before 12 jurors, and Jones would need a unanimous verdict to win.
The most impressive mash-up may well be the title track, courtesy of Cameroon's favorite son, Manu Dibango, along with Le Grand Kalle and Cuban flutist Don Gonzalo.
At the beginning of 1997, perhaps the biggest love in the life of Tommy Suharto -- favorite son of the Indonesian leader -- was the controversial national car project he headed.
Big Luciano, the king of the high seas and Modena's favorite son, was then laid to rest at the Montale Rangone cemetery near his villa outside of town, close to where his parents are buried.
I've covered caucuses where one party wasn't competing because they had a sitting incumbent president, or in 1992, none of the Democrats came here because Senator Tom Harkin who was a favorite son was running and everyone else decided not to compete.
Throughout the trip, Benedict has paid tribute to his predecessor, Poland's favorite son, John Paul II, and his goal has been to exhort the inhabitants of Europe's most devoutly Catholic country to show the rest of the continent how to build a society based on Christian values.
Indeed, Kennedy nearly lost his son Jack, his firstborn and favorite son Joe Jr. died in the European conflict (Kennedy clearly never recovered from this loss), then his daughter Kick (she later died in a plane crash in 1947) lost her husband Billy Hartington to fighting in France.
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Significantly, and perhaps unlike other leading favorite-son and -daughter candidates, Gephardt can make a plausible claim of being able to specifically help Kerry in a second pivotal "red state" as well: With his strong union ties, Gephardt may be able to help Kerry secure critical additional votes in Ohio where more than 16 percent of the electorate belongs to a union, compared to 13 percent union membership nationwide.
For car trips with Dax, he uses the Pandora app to create a customized children's music radio station that will play his son's favorite tunes.
One night in 2003, over dinner at L'Ami Louis in Paris, one of Pinault's favorite restaurants, he told his son that the boss's office would be his the next day.
Maybe it would have been better if he had stayed her favorite thing a toy and not a son because now he would just be a broken toy.
"This was not an accident, " said Peter Hurley, a Portland, Oregon, police officer whose 3-year-old son was sickened by salmonella after eating his favorite peanut butter crackers.
That said, Ms. Patrick and her husband have already started teaching their 16-year-old son Morgan to pay his own bills for his favorite videogame RuneScape and the streaming-music service Spotify with his earnings as a swim instructor.
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