Word: heraldic
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Akihito's accession had been meant to herald a new era in which the imperial office would be free of the controversy that surrounded his father, Emperor Hirohito, for his role in World War II. But it coincided with the publication in the magazine Bungei Shunju of some recently discovered notes on conversations between Hirohito and aides in 1946, in which he discussed his role prior to Pearl Harbor. "It was unavoidable for me as a constitutional monarch," he said, "to do anything but give approval to the Tojo Cabinet on the decision to start the war." Had he opposed...
They included clippings from the Boston Globe and the Boston Herald, including one in which a Globe columnist teases the attorney, Jeffrey A. Newman of the Boston firm Newman, Durso & Itzkowitz, for his "self-promotional hype." Newman sent the paper a "press relase and a ready-for publication color photo," the reporter wrote...
...Paul Watanabe, UMass/Boston political scientist: "You've got the usual party affiliations blurred beyond recognition... It screws up all the usual calculations."--Nov. 5 in the Boston Herald...
...DiNatale, senior associate at the McCormack Institute at UMass/Boston, after the second televised Weld-Silber debate: "It was the night before Halloween and people were waiting for him to scare them, but he didn't."--Oct. 31 in the Boston Herald...
...Independent pollster John Gorman, of Opinion Dynamics in Cambridge: "For $4 million, [Jim Rappaport has] convinced half the electorate he's a bad person."--Nov. 6 in the Boston Herald...