Word: asia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Shanghai, just behind the area where elderly couples gather each day at dawn to go through the ghostly motions of Tai Chi, cranes are busy erecting the world's tallest building, to go with the tallest tower in Asia and the largest department store on the continent. In downtown Toronto, on a jam-packed sidewalk, a blue-robed Chinese monk is knocking clappers ceremoniously together. Amid all the promiscuous minglings of our mishmashed global order, the most confusing ones often arise not when cultures clash but when centuries do, with their different senses of time. The modern Everyplace...
...real problem with Harvard's curriculum, though, is not that the Core is too foreign; rather, it is entirely too familiar. So many Core courses deal with the present or recent past--"The Warren Court" in Historical Studies B and "Industrial East Asia" in Foreign Cultures, for instance--that students are tempted to explore the cozy space within their current horizons rather than take a broadening course. Also, it seems that every ethnicity is recognized with at least one course, allowing students, in effect, to study the subject with which they are already (and quite inevitably) most familiar: themselves...
Wall Street investors are fretting over the future of the global colossus, while business strategists ponder what went wrong. Last week Coke named Australian-born Douglas Daft, 56, who runs the company's Asia and Middle East operations, as president and heir- apparent. But that didn't do anything for Coke's stock price, which fell $4.125 a share last Monday on the news of Ivester's retirement--a 6% drop that knocked $9.9 billion off the company's market value--and dropped 75[cents] more by Friday's close...
Fortunately for Coke's board of directors, diplomacy is just one of Douglas Daft's strengths. The 30-year company veteran has spent most of his career overseas, building successful businesses in the uncertain, even untrammeled markets of the Middle East and Asia. If Ivester seems almost uncomfortable outside the world of the beverage business or his native Georgia, Daft is a jovial former math teacher with a wry sense of humor, a diverse range of interests and a creative streak. He pushed to develop Coke's biggest seller in Japan, for instance, and likes to joke that...
Students planning to travel to nations in many parts of Africa, Asia and South America should consult a physician about getting fully immunized to infections common to that region, according to UHS director David S. Rosenthal...