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...late 1988, as Emperor Hirohito lay dying, Nagasaki Mayor Hitoshi Motoshima broke a widely observed taboo by criticizing the once deified leader. "I experienced military life," said Motoshima in response to a question in the city assembly, "and I believe the Emperor had responsibility for the war." Last week the 67-year-old mayor paid for that statement, very nearly with his life. As Motoshima stepped out of city hall, a gunman shot him in the lung from behind. At week's end the mayor was in stable condition...
Thus says the socially insecure world conqueror Tamburlaine, in Christopher Marlowe's play of the same name, to Bajazeth, Emperor of the Turks. Tamburlaine puts the defeated Emperor in a cage and has him wheeled around to subsequent battle sites. Quite a comedown for the Emperor. And quite an ego boost for Tamburlaine, the former shepherd...
Manuel Antonio Noriega is hardly the Emperor of the Turks. But seizing Noriega and bringing him back to the U.S. in chains is a similar callow triumphalist flourish by President George Bush, the former wimp. Modern media saved Bush the necessity of lugging Noriega in a cage to future summits and election rallies. That prison mug shot of the humiliated former dictator became an instant worldwide image...
BUSINESS: A shaky empire loses its brash emperor...
...remind myself to sleep." Hopping helicopters carrying cargo to remote bases, Lemonick talked to dozens of biologists, geologists and other scientists. His most harrowing trip was a helicopter ride to the edge of an ice sheet 25 miles out in Ross Sound for a close look at the emperor penguins that nest there. "Before we landed, a crewman jumped out with a giant auger and drilled several feet to see if the sheet was thick enough to hold our weight," says Lemonick. "Even then, we had to walk very carefully, single file, watching for cracks...