Wilson High School Principal Pete Cahall came out to his students as gay at a school-wide Pride Day event Wednesday, shaking as he said that he had “hid in the shadows for the last 50 years” but was inspired by his students to declare his sexual orientation openly. “I want to say publicly for the first time because of your leadership, care and support that I am a proud gay man who just happens to be the principal of Wilson High School,” he said in the packed atrium at the D.C. school, flanked by Mayor Vincent C. Gray (D) […]

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Google has created a website where Europeans can request information to be removed from search results. Lisa Fleisher explains how it works. Photo: Getty Images Requests are still rolling into Google Inc. in Europe for individual results to be deleted from Internet searches. Google Inc. said Tuesday that it had received 41,000 requests from people hoping to delete individual results that turn up for their name in the first four days after it posted a Web page to take the requests late last week. The page was part of Google’s response to a controversial court decision that enshrined the […]

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Justin Bieber sold his house in a gated community in Calabasas for $7.2 million, public records now show. Reality TV personality Khloe Kardashian was the buyer. The location puts Kardashian in proximity to sister Kourtney should either need to borrow a cup of sugar or perhaps several eggs. Kourtney bought the nearby home of retired pro football player Keyshawn Johnson earlier this spring. Khloe Kardashian’s new house, built in 2005 and set on a 1.3 acres, was not listed for sale. Tax records show it has at least six bedrooms and 9,214 square feet of living space. That’s a […]

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An unusually public battle is being waged between Amazon and one of America’s top five publishers, Hachette. Why the rancor? Here’s what you need to know. 1. What is Hachette? Although Hachette publishes about 1,000 books a year, you’ve probably never heard of the company. Publishers are notoriously awful at branding, and Hachette, like the other four major publishers, is a conglomeration of imprints with different identities. Those imprints include Grand Central, Orbit, Hyperion and Little, Brown. Although you may not recognize those names either, you certainly will recognize some of the writers they publish. 2. Who do they […]

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Tank Man. For 25 years, foreign reporters have sought to identify the brave, solitary figure in the most memorable photo to emerge from China’s crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square. And still, the mystery endures. Shortly after noon on June 5, 1989, the day after troops stormed through Beijing and into the square to crush the student-led political uprising that had paralyzed and electrified the capital for weeks, a lone man with shopping bags in both hands briefly stopped a column of oncoming tanks on the Avenue of Eternal Peace. The lead vehicle halted. It moved right and […]

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Tuesday marked the end of the line for the Patterson family’s 150-year reign as Bay Area land barons, but it was a $10 million day for the East Bay Regional Park District. The Patterson family, Bay Area stalwarts since the Gold Rush, donated the last chunk of their once vast land holdings to the park district on a sunny morning in Fremont. The gift – nearly 300 acres of willows and pickleweed near San Francisco Bay – is the most valuable piece of property obtained by the district in its 80-year history. The $10 million appraisal was on the […]

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