We could've at least driven through the Heidelberg Project, the neighborhood art project by native son Tyree Guyton, helped along by artists such as Tim Burke.

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Meanwhile, Lauren Santo Domingo, a Greenwich, Connecticut, native whose wedding to the son of a Colombian billionaire received 10 pages of coverage in Vogue, has been named by the New York press as a contender for late society doyenne Brooke Astor's empty seat.

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In Buenos Aires, hundreds of people gathered outside the cathedral in the Plaza de Mayo, considered the heart of the country, and burst into celebration when their native son was elevated.

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The state once voted reliably for Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon and its native son, Gerald Ford.

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In Russia, officials aren't commenting after Tsarnaev's mother said authorities won't allow her son's body into the country so she can bury him in her native Dagestan.

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His mother, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, told the AP that her son greatly enjoyed his time with her relatives, but never traveled to her native village in a mountainous region of Dagestan, which is a hotbed of an ultraconservative strain of Islam known as Wahabbism.

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Edmund Muskie of Maine in the 1972 New Hampshire primary -- a finish many viewed as a win because Muskie was considered a native son.

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