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...unknown to them. The shogun's court at Edo received various dispatches from pairs of strong-legged runners, one of whom carried state documents in a lacquered box while the other bore a lantern marked "official business." In imperial Kyoto, the Empress and her ladies followed a custom of blackening their teeth...
...roots in ancient Buddhism, and followers are included in the statistics for Buddhists, not in the "new religions." Unlike other new Japanese sects, Soka Gakkai is intolerant, going so far as to preach that "Shinto is a heretical religion that we must destroy." Contrary to Japanese custom, Soka Gakkai also asks its believers to proselytize, and has moved abroad: it claims 200,000 members in the U.S., mainly in California. Soka Gakkai teaches that continual repetition of the phrase Namu Myoho Renge Kyo, derived from the title of the Lotus Sutra, one of the Buddhist scriptures...
...border. The PAN, a center-right party that generally favors private enterprise, had mounted a slick, expensive campaign. PAN officials took a cue from candidates north of the border by financing their campaign with contributions from small-and medium-size businesses, a new but legal departure from Mexican political custom...
...Supreme Court did not agree. Contending that the presence of a chaplain to open legislative sessions is "deeply imbedded in the history and tradition of this country," Chief Justice Warren Burger held that the custom, including the use of state funds to pay the chaplain's salary, posed no threat to constitutional ideals. Wrote Burger: "To invoke Divine guidance on a public body entrusted with making the laws is not, in these circumstances, an 'establishment' of religion or a step toward establishment...
...Reinhardt extravaganza, with some added stage business that would have got Max busted back in old Berlin. Bowie would kneel in front of his lead guitarist Mick Ronson, clutch Mick's butt and apply his lips and tongue to the extremities of Ronson's Les Paul Custom...