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...corrugated tin roof, were put in place by minimalist sculptor Taylor Davis.Two weeks after it arrived in the neighborhood, the shelter was smashed, leaving marks the size of bullet holes in the cracked panels.In the early 1990s, Israeli artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles designed a large sculpture of a throne, accompanied by an image of a galaxy, in Daheny Park, once a dumpsite. In the past few years, her work has routinely been damaged. And a controversial mural on a traffic rotary near Walden Street, for which artist Wen-ti Tsen was reportedly paid $10,000 by the CAC, has been...
After a summer of construction, the student organization offices at Hilles quietly opened its doors yesterday. The first sign of life: an ornate wooden throne, littered with purple cushions, recently moved into the office of the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players. Offices and meeting rooms opened for groups to move in, and the Gilbert and Sullivan performers were one of the first to claim their spot in the new student center, which features brightly lit student group offices along corridors of translucent walls. The club’s president Casey M. Lurtz ’07 said that overall...
...However, Manuel's personal history suggests that might actually have had forced conversion in mind. At around age 40 he was sent to the Ottoman court as a kind of ceremonial hostage; and before he returned to Constantinople to take up the imperial throne, he was forced to participate in a campaign against a Byzantine region in Anatolia. Perhaps during that fighting he witnessed an atypical forced conversion-- a bit like that of the Fox journalists...
...promote a more assertive role for Japan abroad?despite the risk of further antagonizing neighbors like China and South Korea. At home he promotes patriotism as an answer to Japan's social ills, and opposed efforts led by Koizumi to allow a woman to ascend to the imperial throne. But to his allies, the aggressive attitude that critics like Morita find alarming is just part of Abe's effort to help Japan become a "normal nation," free to act confidently on the global stage. How you view Abe depends on what you think normal means for Japan. "Abe will stand...
Meanwhile, Masako's demure and traditional sister-in-law, the wife of the Emperor's second son Akishino, seems born to be a Japanese princess. Earlier this year, as conservatives searched for a way to defeat legislation that would allow women to ascend to the throne--a move that had the support of some 80% of the Japanese public--it was Kiko, then 39, who conceived her miracle boy out of pure imperial duty, according to some of her fans. "The Emperor had been worried and depressed that the crown princess had no more children," says Nishiyama. So Kiko...