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What?s going on in Tokyo? Why so much glee over a disaster? After one of Japan?s hottest internet companies was revealed to be mired in financial scandal, the Nikkei was sent reeling, and the stock market tumbled 3% two days in a row. An investment firm executive linked to the controversy was found dead in an Okinawa hotel room, an apparent suicide. So why are upstanding members of Japan?s business establishment barely able to contain their happiness? It?s all in how you say ?schadenfreude? in Japanese...
...center of the storm. One of Livedoor?s subsidiaries is alleged to have provided false financial information in order to boost its stock price artificially; and a Monday night raid by investigators on Livedoor offices and the homes of its executives precipitated the stock market swoon. But the glee among the staid suits of Tokyo comes from what Horie has come to represent. Over the last few years, he has become the chieftain of a tribe of internet entrepreneurs who hang out in the shiningly chic Roppongi Hills complex. To this Hills Tribe, the future of business was the internet...
...left New Jersey for Massachusetts to become the third conductor of the Harvard Glee Club, a post he held until 1970. But even after he gave up the baton, Forbes maintained a quiet presence at Harvard music events...
...Richard E. Wilson ’63, the Glee Club’s accompanist in the early 1960s, said that Forbes was an indefatigable source of advice and encouragement for many students...
...Forbes was also always concerned about the well-being of his students, Wilson said. In one instance, Wilson found himself busy with schoolwork and called Forbes to get out of a Glee Club rehearsal. After telling Forbes that he had come down with a headache, Wilson said that Forbes rushed over in his car to deliver him some medicine...