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DISMISSED. A LAWSUIT demanding damages by 188 plaintiffs offended by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's three visits to the Yasukuni Shrine, which honors soldiers killed in past wars, among them 14 Class-A war criminals; by the Osaka High Court; in Osaka. Although the court rejected the demands for nominal payments of $90 per plaintiff from Koizumi, the Japanese government and the shrine, its judgment also said that the prime minister's visits?which routinely roil relations with China and South Korea by rekindling resentment of Japanese wartime atrocities?violate a constitutional requirement calling for the separation of church...
...strangest thing Greg M. Schmidt ’06 found in his new apartment this summer. Waking up for the first time in his summer sublet, Schmidt—the current president of the Harvard Democrats—discovered, in his own words, “a little shrine to our 43rd President...
...shrine,” which included champagne, White House M&Ms, photos of Bush, cards, and a Red Bull can adorned with a Republican National Committee (RNC) campaign sticker, belonged to Matthew P. Downer ’07, who currently presides over the Harvard Republican Club. The two presidential roommates were brought together through Government 1352: Campaigns & Elections, which they took together last fall. This summer, they shared a bedroom in a house with five other Harvard students and a sixth subletter they found on Craigslist...
...summer progressed, Downer’s shrine to number 43 was countered by Schmidt’s Democratic paraphernalia. But as a parting gift, Schmidt now possesses a small, RNC candidate-endorsing can of Red Bull...
...bridge. "It's the fault of Sunnis for creating an atmosphere where such rumors are taken seriously," said Hussein Alwi, a pilgrim from Najaf. Some blamed American and Iraqi soldiers for setting up restrictive checkpoints elsewhere in the city that left the pilgrims just one way to the Kadhamiya Shrine...