Move Over, Di: Princess Kiko, 23, wife...

Move Over, Di: Princess Kiko, 23, wife of Prince Akishino, 24, Emperor Akihito’s youngest son, drew admiring attention from guests on a weekend visit to an imperial tomb in Kashihara, Japan. “She’s so much more beautiful in person,” gushed one middle-aged woman in the crowd Saturday as the princess walked a few steps behind her husband. “I like the way she smiles.”

Old Story: The Library of Congress will display personal mail between members of Congress and their wives over the last 200 years, some of which suggests Washington sex scandals are not new. Rep. Job Pierson of New York wrote to his wife, Clarissa, on Dec. 17, 1834, that her brother, a U.S. senator, seduced a maid the first week of her employment and “cohabitated with her during the whole session . . . . The other boarders were angry at this monopoly,” he wrote. “They enticed some four or five girls from a house of ill-fame . . . who came there every night.”

Final Fourth Report: Georgette Mosbacher knows how to get attention. She showed up at Alan Greenspan’s Independence Day party at the Federal Reserve in a sexy green outfit. But the commerce secretary’s wife also caused a few raised eyebrows because she wore an American flag scarf around her shoulders.

Space Rights: A physicist urged a UFO symposium to accept a bill of rights to govern people from different worlds. John Brandenburg’s declaration, presented Sunday in Pensacola, Fla., says humans and extraterrestrials are all “children of the creator” with equal rights. It forbids landings without consent of future global authorities and prohibits alien bases on other planets’ satellites. Brandenburg ended his talk with the monologue from the “Star Trek” series.