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Warren Professor of American History Akira Iriye spearheaded a drive by two dozen prominent historians who sent a letter last week to the chancellor of the City University of New York (CUNY) protesting the system’s decision not to reappoint Robert David “KC” Johnson...
Despite having recently decided to leave Oxford for a tenured position at NYU, Niall Ferguson is breakfasting this morning with Akira Iriye, chair of Harvard’s history department, who said the department is interested in bringing Ferguson to Harvard as a tenured professor...
...entry that has garnered the most buzz is NBC's Boomtown (Sundays, 10 p.m. E.T.), which tells each story from the perspective of several characters. But don't believe the early hype that compares it to Akira Kurosawa's film Rashomon: that's like saying because 24 takes place in one day, it's TV's Ulysses. Kurosawa questioned the nature of truth, telling a story through unreliable narrators. Boomtown's relatively straightforward narrative mainly means you get to see car crashes from two different angles. (CSI's flashbacks, which change as the investigators get closer to the truth...
...country's Food and Drug Administration determined health claims surrounding the products were bogus and barred related advertisements as fraudulent. Japanese companies are treading carefully. "We say there are lots of negative ions in nature, and our products increase the number of negative ions," says Panasonic spokesman Akira Kodota. "That's it." Tokyo resident Jyuichi Kobayashi, 33, has begun to doubt the value of the negative-ion bracelet he wears. "It isn't helping me sleep or get over my jet lag," he grumbles. "I guess you have to believe it for it to work." Our advice: just think negative...
...Akira Miyajima, director general of the Health Ministry's pharmaceutical and food safety bureau, defends his agency's cautious pace. "It's difficult for us to move on just one case," he says. "If we claimed publicly that a product was dangerous before we know for sure, it would cause a lot of trouble for the business and open us up to lawsuits. Given the circumstances, we think we moved with extreme speed...