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...last time I ate Nyonya was at an outdoor food court in Kuala Lumpur. The dish was Chicken Kapitan, a coconut-laced curry redolent with tamarind, turmeric and shrimp paste. The waiter who delivered the bowl of curry was Malay. With me were TIME's Malaysia stringer, an ethnic Indian, and our taxi driver, a Chinese. Both snuck spoonfuls of gravy from my dish. I didn't mind. There was more than enough for all of us to share...
...into the small drop-off area was letting off steam by blasting their horns and shouting abuse at the people ahead of them. Conducting it all was a guard with a piercing metal whistle which never left his mouth. "Not the most peaceful place," agreed TIME's Dhaka stringer Haroon Habib when he arrived to help with the interview...
Friday, Nov. 17 wasn’t about selling a videogame system. Not to Sony, and certainly not to Chairman and CEO Sir Howard Stringer, charged with revitalizing the corporation. Friday was about mindshare—the term used in the corporate world to describe how consumers think about a product. Friday was about media coverage of the hundreds of thousands that are so enamored with Sony’s hardware that they are willing to camp out on the pavement or even take a bullet for the chance to own one. If you don’t believe...
...uneven results have critics wondering if Stringer should break up the company. "It's time Sony takes a hard look at where their non-electronics divisions fit in the larger picture," says Yasunori Tateishi, author of Sony Inside Story. "The company talks about synergy, but it's never been realized...
This criticism drives Stringer nuts. In a world where everything is connected, he says, why disband a brand that can fulfill a consumer's every entertainment wish? He says the plan to get sprawling divisions to work together more closely is succeeding. "I just came back from China and the word Sony United is being stamped across every office there," he says. "People want to bring the company together." Slogans are one thing, though, and even Stringer acknowledges, "We still have a ways to go." Game...