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...keen eye and sharp instinct for the big issues of our time with an eye-twinkling liveliness that made him a tremendous joy to be around. I remember a day a few years ago at his home in Stonington, Conn., when, racing his Boston Whaler to a distant beach at a terrifying clip, he had my young daughters shrieking with excitement while simultaneously quizzing me on the possible business models for journalism online. He was a multitasker before the word (which he surely would have hated) was invented...
...Enjoy a Sex on the Beach if anyone dares to ask about family values and sex education...
...That left an opportunity for MUFG, and it took it. Time will tell if the Japanese bank made the right move. In the 1980s, when Japan was booming, its companies bought a series of U.S. assets - from movie studios to the Pebble Beach golf course - that subsequently plunged in value, generating a fair bit of xenophobic resentment in the process. Now, it's Tokyo to the rescue on Wall Street. The Japanese are hoping that having learned the hard lessons of their own banking disaster a decade ago, they can now make some money navigating the one unfolding across...
...market typical of Shanghai: four- or five-floor “malls” filled with hundreds of fake-stuff-stalls, selling everything from North Face to Abercrombie to Coach to print shirts with lazy translations (one read, “Let’s Do The Dancing Team Beach Volleyball”).After the first week, these pseudo-Western products all begin to fade into the rest of the novelty that is Shanghai. I love that I bought the entire James Bond collection compressed onto three DVDs, but I’ve been trying to find something under...
...resentful, uncommunicative and uncooperative McCain who was uncomfortable with the straight talk he used to be known for and who had a chip on his shoulder the size of a sequoia. Such a volatile temperament renders him unfit to have his finger anywhere near the button. Lee Otterholt, Laguna Beach, Calif...