Word: heraldically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Letter-Opener: At Friday night's game against Vermont, The Boston Herald sent a different reporter--Lisa Olson...
Although she only introduced herself as Lisa, her fifteen minutes (plus) of "fame" have placed her firmly into the public's mind. Adding up "Lisa," "The Herald" and "sports reporter" did not take long...
...shopping season in grand style last week in St. Louis, where he was escorted by 3,000 children to his castle at the sprawling 200-store Northwest Plaza. In New York City, Macy's staged its lavish Thanksgiving Day parade, towing Bart Simpson and 12 other giant balloons to Herald Square, where a 36-ft.-tall Paddington Bear now hovers invitingly above the entrance of the flagship store. In San Francisco holiday shoppers were making a beeline for the free merry-go-round and other rides on the roof of the Emporium. Across America, retailers are trying all sorts...
Martinez has a reputation for imperious leadership, not the best qualification for a man who now may have to cajole Congress, bureaucrats and foreign leaders. "He has talents," said the Miami Herald in an editorial last week, "but persuasiveness is not high among them." If he assumes the post of drug czar, Martinez will need to grasp the drug problem in all its dimensions. Until then, it will be an open question whether he is the man for the job -- or just a man who needed...
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...