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...shogunate declined to a dismal low point, fracturing the empire into a patchwork of squabbling fiefdoms. Terrible famines ravaged the imperial capital of Kyoto and its surrounding provinces, and Yoshimasa did nothing to alleviate the suffering. His penchant for luxury brought the empire to the edge of financial ruin. When he finally realized that he was unfit to rule and decided to abdicate, his indecisiveness about naming a successor provoked the 10-year Onin war, one of the most destructive conflicts in Japanese history...
...wonderful: Norwegian filmmaker Bent Hamer's Kitchen Stories, in which he imagines an observer named Folke (Tomas Norstrom) perched in a sort of tennis umpire's chair, watching an old man named Isak (Joachim Calmeyer) doing his modest culinary chores. They're not allowed to talk; it would ruin the experiment's purity. But, of course, they do, these two lonesome men leading minimalist lives in the snow-shrouded countryside...
...cared about Klymaxx or Romeo Void--did anyone?--but because it's both more poignant and more uplifting than Behind the Music. Its paunchy New Wavers are not operatic figures; they're just folks with jobs who have moved on to other jobs. They haven't gone on to ruin or luxurious retirements. They've just gone on--steadily, maybe happily, maybe not quite as excitingly as in their synth-fueled youth. That's not rock 'n' roll, necessarily. But as VH1's too-old-for-TRL audience has found, that's life...
...Please, God, help me cleanse the computer of viruses and evil photographs which disturb and ruin my work." A prayer by Shlomo Eliahu, an Israeli rabbi, to help men guilty of Internet-related sins. He recommends that penitents install the prayer on their computer desktops...
...says. He claims that Hangthong took his own life because, unable to prevent family members from going to court over their mother's fortune, he knew that Nopdol would present evidence that Hangthong forged two of the five wills that surfaced following Suwapee's death?revelations that would ruin his political career. As for the forensic evidence, Nopdol has enlisted his own expert to support the suicide theory: Dr. Henry C. Lee of the U.S., who testified for the defense in O.J. Simpson's criminal trial...