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...power to the warrior class centuries ago, but it has always been the center of Japan's cultural traditions. Its literature and history are intertwined with the Emperor and his court, and the educated class has always revered the imperial house as a symbol of Japanese culture. The present status of the imperial house is in accord with that tradition, while the modern political and military role of the Emperor is rather an anomaly. Shunichi Watanabe Sendai, Japan Cruelty on a Cracker "Banned: fine food and fun" [Sept. 4], which referred to Chicago's foie-gras ban as a "loopy...
...Delirium Yum Bizarre product names only enhance the 74-year-old German Ingo Maurer's status as the world's most outlandish lighting designer. Co-created with his colleague Sebastian Hepting, this 80-cm-tall version is the little sister of an installation at Maastricht's Kruisherenhotel, a renovated ex-monastery. The lava lamp pales in comparison with this motorized whirlwind in a water cooler, available in October. www.ingo-maurer.com...
...Pluto in Exile Why the sudden controversy over Pluto's planetary status after all these years [Aug. 28]? To call it a planet, a watermelon or a beach ball changes nothing. It remains the same object it always was. John M. Reynolds Augusta, Georgia...
...listed as a million-dollar benefactor of the school’s new research and education building. The revelation has led one environmental advocacy group to suggest that a recent Harvard investigation of the professor, Chester W. Douglass, may have been compromised due to the professor’s status as a patron of the school. The Washington-based Environmental Working Group, which initially brought the accusations against Douglass, said on Friday that the professor’s donation discredits the impartiality of Harvard’s review. “There is nothing wrong with donating a million dollars...
Harvard processes checks from donors and spares groups the trouble of filing for tax exemption status with the Internal Revenue Service...