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...Lindytown, most area residents are long gone. They tell TIME they were muscled out of their homes by Massey, whose representatives pursued them aggressively, phoning and visiting often. By acquiring property in the area, the company has expanded operations - literally into remaining residents' backyards. Retired miner James Smith, 74, promised himself he would never sell out, but it didn't take long for the blasts less than a mile from his home to force him to leave. He caved in late 2009 and turned over his land - likely for a hefty sum. Spotted weeping at the local community bank...
Quincy House alumni include former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom J. Ridge '67. Other famous names include former CNN anchor Lou C. Dobbs '67 and the host of NPR's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! Peter D. Sagal...
...when I tell people my spring break plans and they give me the “he must think he’s quirky” look, I say that I don’t have enough time to be doing much else with a free plane ticket, or that it’s tough finding companions for a $600 day trip, or that, you know, it’s been really hard this semester and I need to go out there and find myself...
When Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo was convicted in December of subverting the state after he helped organize a democracy petition, the only protesters gathered outside the Beijing courtroom were foreign diplomats waiting to tell a pack of Western journalists that their governments officially condemned the verdict...
...beginning, I would often slap people on the face, but actually, I always had a bad conscience about it," he told the Bavarian newspaper Passauer Neue Presse on Tuesday. Ratzinger said he would have intervened had he known about the "scale" of the violence. "The boys would tell me what happened at the school, and I knew that the rector there was violent and would beat the boys hard and that he would do it for no reason," he said. "I was glad in 1980 when corporal punishment was banned...