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...become CEO," says Masaru Kaneko, a professor of economics at Keio University in Tokyo. Stringer himself says that approximately 70% of the company's stock is owned by foreigners, and points out that Ryoji Chubachi, appointed to be his president, lived in Alabama and speaks English with a Southern accent. (For that matter, Idei's love for French culture and knowledge of French wines is legendary...
SOURCE OF SULTRY ACCENT...
...visit with the man behind baseball’s killer record turns up all the qualities of a Boston folk hero. He’s stocky, quick to smile, round-faced, and Irish. His accent is Beantown, chowder, Cheers, and Papi—combined...
...search for prime young baseball talent usually takes him to places where the accent sounds more Mars than Massachusetts. “When I make calls down [South and West], they’re on the other end of the line going, ‘who is this...
Would the real Kazuo Ishiguro please stand up? The 50-year-old novelist is a tough man to classify. Born in Nagasaki, bred in Surrey (where he lived from the age of 5), he looks Japanese, but speaks with the accent of public-school England. Three of his six novels are set in the Far East, the other three explore the quintessence of Englishness. After the stately, hugely successful The Remains of the Day, which spawned the 1993 movie, Ishiguro went wild; his next two novels - The Unconsoled and When We Were Orphans - subjected their characters to chaos, violence...