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...proved to be political gold. Few of those who worked with a younger Koizumi would ever have predicted such popularity for him. At 35, he was still unmarried, a major drawback for an ambitious politician. A matchmaker was consulted, and Koizumi picked out a photo of a kimono-clad university student 14 years his junior. He proposed the day after their first date, and in 1978 Koizumi and Kayoko Miyamoto were wed before 2,500 guests. The marriage didn't last, and in 1982, after having two sons, they divorced. His right-hand man says the whole matter was pure...
...Koizumi lacked was the vital player in every politician's entourage: there was no Mrs. Koizumi. In 1977, the inner circle presented him with dozens of photos of potential spouses, which he stacked high on his parliamentary office desk. The one that caught his eye was of a kimono-clad beauty, a 21-year-old university student named Kayoko Miyamoto. Her family was from Kamakura, an upper-class town of bamboo-shaded temples and hydrangea gardens, not far from Yokosuka, in Koizumi's legislative district. Her grandfather had founded a large pharmaceutical company, and she grew up in a wealthy...
...blame for the I.R.A.'s failure to disarm. Catholic parents say the attacks are based purely on bigotry. Some parents chose the less contentious route recommended by school officials or kept their daughters out of school entirely. But the number of children walking to school between rows of armor-clad police increased as the week went on. "They'll attack us whatever way we go," said the mother of a seven-year-old pupil. "If we don't go down this way, they'll get us the other...
After grounding all flights for four days following Tuesday’s horrific terrorist attacks, Logan Airport reopened Saturday at 5 a.m. to armed black-clad state troopers, bomb-sniffing dogs, no curbside check-ins, no knives in airport restaurants and passengers like the Wettsteins who tried to ignore concern with a quiet, dogged determination to continue on with their lives...
...high, laid and not shot? Today Western popular music is aimed at largely comfortable, unrestricted youth in a country at peace. The political battlefields, more and more, are economic--class conflict, globalism, the environment. So making rebel music in some sense means attacking the pillars of your Nike-clad audience's own comfort...