Word: kamehameha
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...delegates to the 1978 ConCon created the state Office of Hawaiian Affairs; made Hawaiian one of the official languages of the islands; amended Hawaii's Bill of Rights to refer to King Kamehameha I's "Law of the Splintered Paddle" in decreeing that the modern-day state has the power to provide for the safety of its people; and required public schools to teach Hawaiian education (which typically means inculcating students with Hawaiian songs, language and native cuisine), which has since become a staple of fourth-grade curriculum in the islands...
...those awful times will renew your appreciation for the book fair and its bustle of activity. Come night, you can join the book-fair partyers at one of Frankfurt's best clubs, Oneninetyeast (www.190east.de), where American-expat, house-legend Joe Jam will be scratching, or head to the King Kamehameha club for a cocktail. When you're hungry, have some local onion-topped Handkäs mit Musik cheese with onions and an oil-and-vinegar dressing, or simply some frankfurters. However you spend your time, one thing is certain. On leaving the huge halls, their shelves and tables crammed...
...state of Hawaii owes a big thank-you to a drug dealer. In July 1990, U.S. Customs seized the estate of one John Campbell Dowie, charged with smuggling hashish. As it happens, Dowie's 22 acres on the island of Hawaii were the childhood home of the legendary King Kamehameha I, who unified the islands in 1795. Traversed by the lazy beauty of the Halawa Stream, the lush property boasts important archaeological sites and major tourism possibilities. In a ceremony last week, Customs turned it all over to the state. Dowie, on the lam since 1990, did not attend...
Ninety minutes to show time: backstage at the World Theater, the 6-ft. 4-in. Keillor is now chest-deep in an army of young Hawaiians, the 49 members of the Kamehameha School glee club. Singer Kate MacKenzie, a.k.a. Sheila, the Christian Jungle Girl, rushes up to check a cue. Sound men and stagehands circulate. Buster the Show Dog signs autographs, in the person of Actor Tom Keith, who also does the voices of Father Finian and Timmy, the Sad Rich Boy, motor and siren noises and dandy skyrocket effects...
...Critic Robert Hughes' claim that the destruction of the Hawaiian culture in 1819 was "urged on by Christian missionaries" [Sept. 15] is faulty history. Missionaries did not reach the islands until March 30, 1820, nearly five months after King Kamehameha II abolished the kapu system, the all-encompassing Hawaiian political, religious and social order, and ordered the heiau (temples) destroyed and the ki'i akua (images) burned...