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...first was current Empress Michiko, whomarried Emperor Akihito in 1959; the second wasKiko Kawashima, wife of Naruhito's younger brotherAkishino
...town of Ayodhya and razed it. Never mind that the Supreme Court of India, eager to preserve the nation as a secular state in which all religions are respected, had ordered that the mosque be left alone. The existence of the mosque, built by a nobleman of a Mughal Emperor in 1528 on the spot where the Hindu god Rama is said to have been born thousands of years earlier, was deemed an insult by many Hindus, egged on by politicians eager to convert fervent faith into political power...
...like woozy blues sardines, comprises the who's who of the Boston entertainment scene: writers from the Globe and Boston Rock, as well as the Boston Phoenix posse, looking very hip and in-the-know (I have to say this. I work for them); club warlord Pat Lyons (the emperor of Lansdowne Street), Don Law (the Godfather of Boston booking), members of Aerosmith, Patriot quarterback Scott Zolak, Boston Bruin Cam Neely and Motown records chair Jheryl Busby. A House of Blues executive buttonholes Phoenix arts editor Ted Drodzowski and tells him, "The House of Blues isn't about t-shirts...
...appears that everyone did everything to Basquiat, turning him into the all-purpose, inflatable martyr figure of recent American art. Mainly, they loaded him with more money than he knew what to do with and more praise than he could handle; the art market, like the ceiling of the Emperor Elagabalus, opened and smothered him in tons of roses. Some martyrdom...
...GREECE AND Rome: the great fount from which their civilizations sprang. Today, as China struggles to find new directions with the help of neighbors, it still expects its due in homages -- even though two recent visits to Beijing showed how hard it remains to reconcile the past and present. Emperor Akihito, the first Japanese sovereign ever to set foot in the Middle Kingdom, was constrained by domestic politics to stop short of apologizing for Imperial Japan's brutal 1931-45 occupation of much of China. Many Chinese still painfully recall the period's atrocities, but Akihito, to appease Japanese rightists...