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...excuse me if I get a little sick to my stomach when Curt Schilling swaggers into Boston in 2004 with all the bravado of a Roman Emperor. Commercials aired all over Boston about Schilling’s desire to come to the city and “end the 86-year-old curse,” and he seemingly proclaimed himself a team leader from...
...answer to Ben Stiller, who writes unconventional and intelligent comedies. Apparently, we just aren’t ready to see Asian people in everyday life, when they’re not in period films depicting them recklessly hacking off each other’s heads or sleeping with the emperor...
ENGAGED. PRINCESS SAYAKO, 35, to Yoshiki Kuroda, a 39-year-old government employee; in Tokyo. The princess, who is the only daughter of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, drew praise from many single Japanese women for her decision to delay marriage until she found the right partner. Her fianc? is an urban planner for the Tokyo metropolitan administration and is reported to be a close school friend of the princess's elder brother, Prince Fumihito...
Adorn that Douglas fir with one of smithandhawken.com's copper watering-can ornaments, $10. The site will also deliver the Emperor's Head-- a $129 cast-stone planter, that...
...take imprints of soft tissues and delicate structures, so there's no way of knowing whether Mei long had feathers. But other strata of the Liaoning fossil beds are much finer grained. That's where paleontologists found the feathered tyrannosaur, which Xu and Norell named Dilong paradoxus ("surprising emperor dragon"). It's one of the oldest known tyrannosaurs, and one of the emu-size specimens has unmistakable traces of primitive feathers on its tail and jaw. Those filaments, which are about three-quarters of an inch long and branched like modern feathers, are the first direct evidence that tyrannosaurs sported...