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Last year may go down as the one in which the Japanese imperial family finally caught up with the Windsors in the dysfunction department. The saga began last May when Crown Prince Naruhito told reporters at a press conference that his wife, Masako, who has withdrawn from public life since...
Naruhito's comments were unprecedented in severity and directness, and they set off a flurry of speculation about who was making Masako so miserable. (Which was only fueled by a later announcement by the Imperial Household Agency that the unhappy princess had been diagnosed with an "adjustment disorder.") The favorite...
When I was a boy in Wales, my great-uncle Dai used to get drunk at Christmas and drop his trousers to show my scandalized aunts the scar on his buttock. A Turkish bullet struck him as he and his brother secured the road north of Jerusalem in 1917 with...
How do the experts interpret these lines? As you might guess, they wonder where Luke got them. The first angel's language, some note, was less biblical than ... imperial. Brown called it "a christology phrased in a language that echoes Roman imperial propaganda." Recent scholars have said it is a...
Imperial Hubris hit stores in July, and that was enough for some in the Bush campaign to conclude that the agency was trying to undermine the President. Not everyone in the White House was bothered by the book, but those who were included Vice President Dick Cheney, who had tangled...