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Washington's young people used to gather on the Capitol grounds for Easter Egg rolling in the 19th century, but lawmakers grew so peeved at the damage to the grass that in 1876 they passed the Turf Protection Law banning the practice. Bad weather nixed egg rolling the following year, but in 1878 President Rutherford B. Hayes opened the White House grounds to the displaced youngsters and a tradition began. It has continued steadily ever since, interrupted only by inclement weather and hiatuses during World Wars...
...political career. After graduating with a law degree, Yosano worked five years for the Japan Atomic Power Co. before taking a job as secretary to former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone in 1968. In 1976, Yosano won a Diet seat for the Liberal Democratic Party in Tokyo prefecture, his home turf. He has served as Minister of Education, Minister of International Trade and Industry and once before as Minister of Economic and Fiscal Policy and Financial Services under Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, so has a broad range of governmental expertise...
...ahead early in the first half, 8-3, and despite second-half efforts by Harvard to close the gap, the Crimson came up short in a 13-9 defeat. “UVA was the second-straight top-10 team to come here and battle with us on our turf,” sophomore Samantha McMahon said. “From the loss to Penn on Saturday, we wanted to come out fast and hard showing that we can compete with the top teams in the country.” Virginia lived up to its nationally-ranked reputation, notching...
OpenSkies is named after the deregulatory policy that frees airlines to add new city-to-city routes beyond their once protected home turf. OpenSkies chose Amsterdam and bought another business-class fledgling, L'Avion, to gain access to Paris and slots at Orly and share costs and culture. BA doesn't fly to those places from New York City, and it sure as heck isn't going to undercut its own lucrative business-class traffic to London...
...Nishi wear a bird-beak hat (a fashion trend that has driven the Great Indian Hornbill to near extinction in Arunachal), carry a long sword and wear a stuffed rodent around the neck to ward off evil jungle spirits. I'm hoping to see real Nishis on home turf, not the sorry figure wobbling in the alley below...