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...Gary Condit describes her as "very nice, very smart, very interested in politics, very interested in her career." Her father calls her his "princess." Her mother keeps her childhood room like a shrine. She loved her family, and, by all accounts, her life in Washington. She was the archetypal "good girl." In all but one respect: Her apparent weakness for Gary Condit...
Matthew Maxwell Taylor Kennedy was three when R.F.K. was assassinated. Born the ninth of 11 children, he grew up in the sad, chaotic shrine that was Hickory Hill. Ethel, Robert's widow, was intent on keeping his memory alive through her children. "The R.F.K.s had a very different [experience]," William Kennedy Smith says of his cousins. "There is an enormous focus there on that legacy that perhaps other branches of the family don't quite have to deal with as much...
...higher but for the arrest of two militants armed with grenades in Srinagar late Sunday. He says the pair had rigged a motorbike with explosives that they planned to set off on Boulevard Road, next to queues of Hindus waiting to board buses to take them to a cave shrine at Amarnath...
...morning of the attack, we were divided into two groups. I was in the second group. I put on my best uniform, my flying uniform, the khaki-colored one. I prayed at a wooden replica of a Shinto shrine. I bowed once. I didn't ask for much. I said simply: "I am going...
...Japan also coincides with the rise of a new national mood. The hugely popular Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is determined to rekindle a feeling of pride after a decade of economic doldrums. His plans to revise the constitution, which renounces any offensive military capability, and to visit the Yasukuni Shrine, a contentious memorial for dead war veterans (including World War II war criminals), have elicited outcries abroad but little to none at home. Two years ago the Diet restored the World War II-era Hinomaru flag and Emperor-worshiping Kimigayo anthem as official standard-bearers for the nation. A film...