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Dates: during 2000-2009
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EXPECTING. PRINCESS MASAKO, 37, and PRINCE NARUHITO, 41, Japan's childless Crown couple;in Tokyo. The baby, who could be the Chrysanthemum Throne's 126th Emperor, is due inSeptember. Despite the fact Masako's 1999 miscarriage was blamed on the media frenzy that surrounded that pregnancy, more than 100 journalists flocked to her parents' home last week. Pundits predict a nationwide baby boom. PLEADED INNOCENT. DRAGAN OBRENOVIC, 38, to genocide charges stemming from his role in the 1995 Srebrenicamassacre of 7,500 Bosnian Muslims; in The Hague. According to his indictment Obrenovic carried out the orders ofGeneral Radislav Krstic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 4/30/2001 | See Source »

...morning coats, ball gowns and top hats. Courtiers and other grandees adopted European-style aristocratic titles. Rococo, neo-Renaissance and neoclassicist buildings were erected. Concerts of European classical music were performed. A Prussian-style constitution was promulgated, a British-style navy built, a French-style bureaucracy developed and the Emperor, whose forebears had dedicated themselves to culture and ritual in the palatial seclusion of Kyoto, was boosted as a kind of Wilhelmine military monarch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Japan Cares What You Think | 4/30/2001 | See Source »

...propaganda at its most lurid. As Bruce Jackson, who had been a World War II marine, wrote ironically in 1995: "Japs, as we learned from the newsreels that accompanied the double features, were fanatics who jumped up and down waving swords while screaming 'Banzai!' Japs gleefully died for Emperor Hirohito in suicidal charges against American troops or in kamikaze raids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Geishas & Godzillas | 4/30/2001 | See Source »

...guess that the chiaroscurist contrast of beatific cover (an image of a pretty park with some distant peoploids in a pool) and judgmental album title means that Couch intend to say something while not actually saying anything (like Godspeed You Black Emperor!, but with less scrutable liner notes). What it is, though, I don’t know, and titles like “12 is only 4” (“12 sind nur 4”) and “Colour” (“Farbe”) don’t help. What?...

Author: By Daryl Sng, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: In the Mix | 4/27/2001 | See Source »

...guess that the chiaroscurist contrast of beatific cover (an image of a pretty park with some distant peoploids in a pool) and judgmental album title means that Couch intend to say something while not actually saying anything (like Godspeed You Black Emperor!, but with less scrutable liner notes). What it is, though, I don’t know, and titles like “12 is only 4” (“12 sind nur 4”) and “Colour” (“Farbe”) don’t help. What?...

Author: By Andrew R. Iliff, Sarah N. Kunz, and Josiah J. Madigan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: New Albums | 4/27/2001 | See Source »

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