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...another interview; he spent two days and a long, long night in jail (that's when he was punched after arguing with one of his interrogators). Upon hearing of Zhou's retirement, reader Fang Qiangqiang (a screen name) tried to dissuade Zhou from returning to his hometown in Meitanba, Hunan province: "It's not a good idea to go back home because what you can give people by selling vegetables is not comparable to what you are giving people by what you are doing...
Police suggested the cause of death could be an accidental overdose and confirmed to TIME that foul play is not suspected. In a statement given to reporters in the actor's hometown of Perth, Australia, Ledger's father, Kim, denied the death was a suicide, calling his son's passing "tragic, untimely and accidental...
Clemente Mastella unveiled the news with all the daring and chivalry of a medieval knight. The Justice Minister's honor - and particularly that of his wife, a local politician - had been sullied, he fumed, when a magistrate near their hometown east of Naples leveled influence-peddling charges at both of them. And thus this key centrist ally of Prime Minister Romano Prodi announced that he, "with great courage," was withdrawing his party's support for the fragile majority, opening the door to a government crisis. "Che coraggio!?" an Italian might say with an apt double meaning: "What courage?" and "What...
...Indian city of Goa. Jesuits converted the last survivors of the Ming dynasty to Catholicism as they fled the Manchu invaders in the mid-17th century. But Nicolas also brings in another important strand of history: he hails from the northern city of Palencia, not too far from hometown of St. Ignatius of Loyola, the 16th century Basque soldier who founded the Society of Jesus. The Jesuits eventually became the shock troops of the Church as it fought the Reformation, terrorizing Protestant regimes from England to the Netherlands to Sweden...
...seemed a worthy idea at the time: Last January, two competing Atlanta radio stations - one with a predominantly black audience and another with mostly white listeners - would throw a joint "unity party" at a nightclub in Martin Luther King's hometown, on the eve of his birthday holiday. The goal was to bring people of different races together for a night of exuberant partying. Seconds after the simulcast announcement by morning show hosts Frank Ski of V-103 FM and Bert Weiss of Q100-FM, the phone lines at both stations lit up with calls of support from listeners frustrated...