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...buttons on campus for fear of offending others. A contract that violates the Constitution may give John Silber something to wave in his hand, but B.U. students wisely called his bluff. Silber's contract typifies his attempt to dress up his actions, but he really adorns himself in the Emperor's wardrobe...
Bokassa denied any wrongdoing as the new trial got under way in the capital city of Bangui. "I am not a cannibal," he said. After shouting matches with the ex-Emperor, Prosecutor Gabriel Mbodou asked for more time to prepare arguments. Central African Judge Edouard Frank suspended the trial until...
...chilling array of charges faced former Central African Republic Leader Jean- Bedel Bokassa in court last week. The self-proclaimed Emperor, who unexpectedly returned home in October after seven years of exile, stands accused of crimes ranging from cannibalism to concealing corpses to killing children during a brutal 14-year rule that ended in 1979. Bokassa was convicted of similar atrocities in 1980 and was sentenced to death in absentia. Under Central African Republic law, however, he is entitled to a second trial...
Between the inner and outer stone walls of the Forbidden City in Beijing, China, stand the barracks that housed the emperor's army for five centuries. Since the conversion of the royal family's palace into a public site, however, museum employees, not soldiers live here. For eight years, Wu Hung, now a tutor in the Fine Arts department, lived between these walls as a curator for the Palace Museum...
...capital of Bangui. He was promptly arrested. The homecoming set off speculation that after years of unhappy exile, Bokassa hoped to spark a coup against the government of General Andre Kolingba. Bokassa has placed Kolingba in a quandary: he must now decide whether to execute the former Emperor...