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...would take a long time to reach them: rescuers essentially have to re-excavate the entire entrance tunnel, now filled with rubble - and do it with extraordinary care. That's because this particular mine is an old one. "You have increased risk," says Davitt McAteer, vice president of Wheeling Jesuit University in West Virginia and a former MSHA assistant secretary, "because you've already disturbed the ground quite substantially...
...Lachaise is not just any cemetery. It has been a stage for grand episodes of French history for centuries. Originally a country retreat, it was named after the confessor of King Louis XIV, whose successor expelled the Jesuit priests living there in 1763. It became a cemetery in 1804. Then, in 1871--a century before Morrison's death--Parisian anarchists staged a pitched battle against their foes amid the tombstones; 147 survivors were executed against the cemetery wall and buried in a mass grave...
...highlight of the day was not a public high school but a small, bilingual academy called Cristo Rey Jesuit High School. The school, which accepts students of all faiths, has an entirely Hispanic and low-income study body and provides a lot of personalized counseling and small classes. Its hallmark is an unusual work-study program that requires every student to spend an 8-hour day, five times a month, working in a local hospital, law firm or other kind of business. Each employer pays $27,000 a year for a team of four student interns. The money helps defray...
...says. She would later go on to be a founding member of New York’s renowned Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB) improv troupe.When she wasn’t performing with My Mother’s Flea Bag, Poehler managed to uphold the college’s fine Jesuit tradition: “I spent a lot of time off campus shuttling kegs to and fro, and that was another part of my college experience.”PIE IN THE SKYBesides making more movies, Poehler has many “bigger ultimate goals” for the future...
...from genuine devotion. "Each individual person knows that if his name gets on a list of those who want change [from Tiger domination], they better be very careful," says Father Benjamin Henry "Harry" Miller, 81, a Catholic priest who arrived in Sri Lanka in 1948 and works at a Jesuit school in Batticaloa. Proud and inflexible, Prabhakaran needs the violence-or he risks irrelevancy. "You will not change his mind," says Miller. "You can only stop his mind...