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...famous for its tofu and lavish temple altar. Meditation is held twice daily with instruction in English and Japanese. "The time it takes for a stick of incense to burn is the amount of time you should meditate each day," advises the head priest, Ryusho Soeda. DAISHIN-IN: Warlord Hosokawa Masamoto built this temple in 1479 as part of the sprawling Myoshinji temple complex - a group of 47 religious buildings located just 15 minutes by train west of Kyoto station. The shukubo, tel: (81-75) 461 5714, mostly provides lodging for visiting priests but lay guests are welcome. The temple...
...HIDING. Robert Redeker, 52, high school philosophy teacher; after receiving death threats over an opinion article he published in the French daily Le Figaro, calling the Prophet Muhammad a "pitiless warlord, pillager, massacrer of Jews and polygamist." Redeker has left his home near Toulouse and is under police protection...
...with his family since the newspaper Le Figaro published his op-ed piece about Islam on Sept.19. Entitled "Faced with Islamist intimidations, what should the free world do?," Redeker's article called the Koran "a book of extraordinary violence" that shows the prophet Mohammad to have been "a pitiless warlord, pillager, massacrer of Jews and polygamist." The very day the piece came out, Redeker started receiving e-mail death threats. In a letter to a friend published this week in Le Monde, Redeker wrote that one website condemning him to death included a map showing exactly where...
...Koizumi years. But there is a role to play for the person who makes sense of what a predecessor started. Junji Higashi, a legislator with the New Komeito party who is close to Koizumi, says the outgoing Prime Minister loves to compare himself to Nobunaga Oda, the revolutionary warlord who all but conquered Japan in the 16th century and began the unification of Japan. But Higashi notes that it was Nobunaga's successors, Hideyoshi Toyotomi and Ieyesu Tokugawa, who built a stable rule that endured for more than 250 years. "Koizumi was about creative destruction," says Higashi...
...Democratic Republic of Congo's electoral commission announced the interim results of the country's first free vote in more than 40 years Sunday night, fighting had broken out in Kinshasa, the mouldering capital on the Congo River. Supporters of President Joseph Kabila clashed with backers of former warlord and current vice-president Jean-Pierre Bemba, who accused Kabila's Republican Guard of attacking its headquarters. Earlier, young men angry with Kabila's success hurled insults and rocks at patrolling policemen. "If you want war," they shouted, according to the BBC, "we are ready...