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Since the famously photographed murder of a Socialist leader by a right-wing youth in 1960, being a Japanese politician has been hazardous to little more than one's ego. That may have changed with the shocking murder last Friday of Diet member Koki Ishii. The 61-year-old Ishii was steps away from his car outside his home when he was stabbed repeatedly with what appeared to be a 30-cm sashimi knife by Hakusui Ito, a 38-year-old with ties to right-wing extremists. Ito fled the scene but turned himself in to the police the following...
...definition, a diva is a rampaging female ego redeemed only in part by a lovely voice. It's hard to imagine why anyone would want to be one, but a new generation of female talent appears to be weirdly enamored of the word and the idea...
...been generous with his time, incisive and penetrating in his comments, and immensely encouraging to more than two generations of young scholars,” Porter said. “He is without guile or ego and the very model of a marvelous teacher, scholar, and friend...
...kitchen has become the home's ego, the place where owners choose to strut their stuff. "People treat their kitchens much differently than they did in the recent past," says Russell Morash, creator of the home-renovation television show This Old House. "We've moved away from well-mannered, out-of-the-way appliances to in-your-face kitchen as theater." Morash says the "$100,000 kitchen" has replaced the killer bathroom at the top of the dream-house wish list...
...Mountain Hawks need an ego boost before stepping onto the field, they need look no further than the aforementioned thumping it gave the Crimson...