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...humiliating resignation is yet another body blow to the Prime Minister's swooning administration. A weekend poll reported that Abe's popularity had dropped below 30% for the first time, with a disapproval rating of nearly 50%. Kyuma is the third cabinet-level minister to exit during Abe's nine-month tenure; barely a month ago Agriculture Minister Toshikatsu Matsuoka committed suicide under the shadow of corruption allegations. Meanwhile Japanese are enraged over recent revelations that millions of public pension accounts could no longer be matched to their owners because of decade-old bureaucratic errors, meaning some could...
Melvoin says he felt burnt out by high school, and once he came up with the idea of spending a year abroad, he worked with Rustic Pathways—a company that sponsored an earlier trip he took—to plan his nine-month expedition...
...short man in a big hat and parade him around to mark the anniversary of his death. Welcome to the island of Elba, off the west coast of Tuscany, and more specifically to Tenuta La Chiusa, a working vineyard where the warmonger once spent two nights during his nine-month Elban exile, before escaping to prepare for his last battle. Today, peace lovers can enjoy a relaxing farm holiday in one of the nine peasant cottages among the vines and olive groves. The decor is rustic - simple furniture and no mod cons - but each cottage has a small garden...
...monochrome negatives to a workshop in Beijing. There, workers transferred the negatives to so-called “lantern slides” before coloring them in by hand.Thirty-one of these hand-colored slides constitute “Vanished Kingdoms.” They document the Wulsins’ nine-month, 1,300-mile Central China Expedition for the National Geographic Society, with a focus on the people and architecture they met along the way.Because of their fragile nature, the slides have been scanned and enlarged to the size of a splayed broadsheet for the exhibition. Alas, the digitization touches...
...exchange for a one-year gag order prohibiting Hicks from speaking to the press, he will be sent home by the end of May to serve the balance of a nine-month jail term - with seven years suspended - handed down at Guantanamo. The deal also prohibits Hicks from later accusing the U.S. of mistreating him, or suing for damages. The deal was struck without consulting the military prosecutors in the Hicks case, who had favored a much longer sentence, provoking charges in Australia and the U.S. of a political...