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Lebed: It is up to the state to do it, but there has been nothing but talk and wishful thinking. It's like the tale of the emperor's new clothes. Everyone acted as if the emperor were dressed, until a small boy said he was naked. This is where we stand with reform...
...became more famous for marital scandals than anything else. Yet despite her separation from Prince Charles, PRINCESS DIANA is still adored in Japan. During her first visit on her own there last week, admirers waved tiny Union Jacks, children at a health center warmed to her friendliness, and the Emperor and Empress gave her smiles and English tea at the Imperial Palace. Di even had a victory at home: her lawsuit against a gym owner who secretly photographed her exercising was settled for an apology and a substantial sum that will go to a favorite charity...
...parliament building, and smaller sections of Frankfurt were also overrun. Shipping was suspended entirely along the lower reaches of the Rhine, the world's busiest inland waterway. In Koblenz the river rose to 9.27 m and surrounded the newly restored bronze statue of Kaiser Wilhelm I. The Emperor's bronze likeness appeared to be riding a sea horse...
...keep your spirits high,'' urged EMPRESS MICHIKO, gently touching the hands of refugees at an emergency shelter in Kobe. One woman, overcome with emotion, wept when the Empress, who is usually kept at a distance from ordinary Japanese, tenderly embraced her. Protocol yielded to compassion as the Empress accompanied Emperor Akihito on an eight-hour visit to the stricken city, stopping at a site where many had died to place a bouquet of daffodils from the gardens of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. Their tour of the disaster area was delayed two weeks, so as not to interfere with rescue...
Most scholars, though, think he never got there. After Alexander's death in Babylon, or present-day Iraq, the body was sent back to Macedonia for burial. But Ptolemy, one of Alexander's generals, hijacked the corpse and eventually took it to his home base in Alexandria; having the Emperor's remains gave Ptolemy huge political clout...