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...replied, "when I was a young student of political science at the University of Tokyo I met Georges Ohsawa. He rediscovered the ancient yin-yang cosomology of Chinese emperor Fou-hi, who ruled about 2910 B.C. He taught me that man is unhappy because he feels divorced from the world. The dialectic of world peace can be achieved only through diet." He continued, describing how Ohsawa had founded several "sanarants," sanatorium restaurants, in France and six Macrobiotic restaurants in New York...
Since 1840, when the Code Napoléon was enacted as France's basic civil law, married Frenchwomen have enjoyed all the legal privileges one might expect from the Emperor's opinion of them. Novelist George Sand watched in despair in the 19th century while her husband squandered her immense dowry and made her ask permission to spend the money she earned from her books and plays. A present-day French woman told her lawyer that her husband had just sold her store, and now wanted a divorce. What could she do? "Cry, madame, cry," she was advised...
...Pope Pius VII crowned Napoleon Emperor; last night another Italian (well, almost) did somewhat the same for the President of Harvard...
...much for the Northwest Passage. Southward the way was barred by Spain, but the greedy "marchant adventurers" heard wondrous travelers' tales. One story, no doubt brought back by an ancestor of Ian Fleming, gave it out that "certaine servants of the emperor having prepared gold into fine powder blow it thorow hollow canes upon their naked bodies, untill they be al shining from the foote to the head...
Technical Sin. The problem is almost as old as Rome itself. The city's founder, Romulus, did allow men to sue for divorce, and the Emperor Justinian permitted it in return for vows of future chastity from each partner, but Mussolini's 1929 Concordat with the Vatican banished divorce entirely. The church courts do permit annulments-at the rate of about 70 a year. Another 12,000 couples win legal separations each year, but the separated remain bound in marriage. Not surprisingly, 2,500,000 Italians have chosen concubinage. About 10% of the entire population is now technically...