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A more fundamental problem is what aviation security lawyers deride as the government?s "imperial overreach." Prosecutors are arguing that if Moussaoui had come clean with FBI agents interrogating him before 9/11, airport security could have been beefed up to foil the hijackers. In other words, they are claiming that...
One hundred and sixty-six years ago this week, Lord Palmerston, the great British Foreign Secretary, sent a letter to the Imperial Chinese government that paved the way for the 1840-42 Anglo-Chinese conflict, the “Opium War.” It’s a brilliantly...
Delhi continues to be a frustration for lovers of architecture. With its eight centuries of grand mosques, emperors' tombs and ruined forts, it has an architectural heritage to rival that of great imperial cities like Istanbul and Rome. Yet anyone who has tried to find the relics of Delhi's...
The only thing this lovely book lacks is a sense of humor. Delhi has probably been ruled by a more continuous string of misfits, incompetents and cowards than any other imperial city, which may be why it has been sacked so often-among those who did the honors were Timur...
But traditionalists, for whom the paternal line of succession is a defining characteristic of Japan's imperial legacy, started to protest. Echoing the shifting mood, on Feb. 4 the Asahi Shimbun, Japan's most liberal major newspaper, said that "Revision of the law must be considered through calm discussion." At...