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...must be thrilling to assume command of Sony, a luminous icon of Japan's postwar recovery. Thrilling, and perhaps sobering. Howard Stringer read history at Oxford, and now he is making it as the latest in a short list of Westerners to be installed as chief executive of a Japanese corporation. Doubtless, Stringer is aware that the significance of his promotion extends beyond Sony to the larger context of the convulsive changes that are transforming the landscape of Japanese society...
...Howard Stringer's greatest strengths, say those who know him, is his ability to thrive in alien, even potentially inhospitable cultures. Welcome to Tokyo, Sir Howard. You will need every ounce of your intercultural sensitivity to thrive in your new post, CEO of Japan's struggling Sony Corp. During a capacity-crowd press conference last week in Tokyo, outgoing Sony CEO Nobuyuki Idei, 67, announced that he was voluntarily stepping down after almost five years and that Stringer, 63, rather than one of a number of oft mentioned Japanese heirs apparent, was replacing...
...find Eminem's Ass Like That there. And if a song is called Can't Keep It In, you can bet it's about love for Jesus. Music fans looking for Christian inspiration now have a sacred space on the Internet to download songs. Howard Rachinski, creator of the Church Copyright License program, which allows houses of worship to copy music and distribute it to their congregations, will launch Songtouch.com next month. Billed as a "Christian Napster," the service will debut with 15,000 inspirational songs, from gospel to rap, making it the most comprehensive website of its kind. Songs...
...blogs reached a milestone last week when the first blogger was officially issued a White House press pass. Blogs such as MYDD.COM had taken up the cause of FISHBOWLDC's Garrett Graff, who was once Howard Dean's webmaster. After Graff finally snared a credential, the ex-Harvard Crimson editor showed up on his first day with homemade cookies to thank White House staff members. He later described the experience in his blog as both "surreal" and "anticlimactic...
Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics Howard Georgi ’67 spent a February weekend peering into a Hawaiian sunset with his freshman-year roommates...