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It’s not just the ability to party in our slippers that makes us love the Quad so much. We are well-fed, well-housed, and damn talented up here in Harvard’s northern woods. Our dining halls boast the best cooks (check the survey), we...
Kato, 51, persevered and is now an astronomy professor at Keio University, outside Tokyo. She was and continues to be an exception. In 2004, 9.5% of Japanese graduate students in engineering were women. Though the situation is steadily improving (the number of female engineering students has grown by 30% in...
Be Cool is the most ironically named movie since What’s the Worst That Could Happen? Crass commercialism rarely exhibits any sign of the finesse, reserve, or hip theatricality inherent to modern definitions of cool. This flop is no exception.
The one possible exception is Bobo the Self-Hating Chimp, an emotionally complicated primate whose existence in the Bronx Zoo Monkey House serves as a self-mocking metaphor for the crisis of modernity.
Asian companies will likely take on more outsiders as CEOs and directors in coming years as they strive to improve management and compete on a global scale. But the process will be painfully slow. Many major Asian firms are controlled by families or a single dominant shareholder, patriarchs who feel...