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Tatsuro Sasaya lives by Newton's Third Law of Motion. "If people go one way, I go the other way," he says, which might be the only explanation for his decision to move back to his economically depressed hometown of Yubari on Japan's cold northern island of Hokkaido. When the 49-year-old Sasaya was growing up here, it was a thriving city of over 100,000 people, most working in the coalmines scattered throughout the surrounding mountains. But by the time Sasaya had left for college in Tokyo, the mines were closing and many of the townsfolk...
...backing Hillary Clinton. Many of the members, she said, would wait and see how the race shapes up. And others have already made up their minds in favor of others. Greg Meeks, a Democratic congressman from New York, says his decision is simple: he' s sticking with his hometown gal, Clinton, who has talked to him about her candidacy. "I've been calling her Madame President for a long time," Meeks said. New York civil rights activist Al Sharpton says he is considering another presidential run and used a recent interview with the Associated Press to make clear...
...Hrant Dink has put Turkish nationalism in the spotlight. The suspect, 17-year-old Ogun Samast, was quoted by newspapers as telling police he shot Dink because the journalist insulted the Turkish nation. Local papers are reporting that Samast was allegedly linked to a small ultranationalist group in his hometown, Trabzon, on the Black Sea Coast. "Those who created nationalist sentiment in Turkey have fed such a monster that there are many youngsters on the streets who do not find the ... state nationalist enough and are ready to take the law into their own hands," wrote Ismet Berkan...
House: Whose House? D-Haus. Lol. Concentration: Government (it’s where the $$ and babes are). Hometown: Sandersville, GA (damn right, that’s a red state). Ideal Date: My town has an annual Civil War reenactment that my father, mother and grand pappy participate in. I’ve always wanted to grab some soda pop from the apothecary and sit up on this big hill called Uncle Fielding’s Overlook and watch it with a girl. Best way for a girl to get your attention: Pop it and lock it, SON! Where to find...
...always a fine line between being too willing to forget the past, and spending one’s whole life in it. I think Harvard students are, as a rule, guilty of the former far more often than the latter. A healthy relationship with one’s hometown, parents, and family is, well, healthy. Even more importantly, if more Harvard students possessed such relationships, we’d see fewer Brady jerseys being dusted off for their annual appearance right about...