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TIME's earlier efforts at this kind of global-community journalism have received terrific response. Thousands reacted to our Sierra Leone story, including a group that flew some amputees to the U.S. for treatment. And a wealthy businessman, after reading our AIDS-orphans story, written by Nairobi bureau chief Simon Robinson, plucked some of the children from the hellhole where they were living and relocated them to a house in suburban Harare, Zimbabwe. For people residing in the world's worst places, that kind of generous help is as close to a miracle as anything they could...
...write clear sentences about nothing. [laughs] No-about something or nothing. And that's a skill that you can't have enough of. The ability to write clear expository prose is a skill that is useful in every walk of life. Today, you have to be a businessman, even as an artist, and you have to be able to get ideas across clearly. If I got nothing else out of college than to have spent four years writing expository prose, then it was worth it. That's something I really feel I got out of the education...
...have no role models to look up to, no positive elements to take pride in. Hence they suffer in silence. Where are all of the romantic Asian male lead roles in movies? Why is every Asian-looking man in a movie either kung-fu fighting or a dull, weak businessman lacking in personality? Given the success and numbers of Asian Americans in such fields as science and business, why isn't there greater Asian American representation in politics...
...food, can be blunt with subordinates, is building a lavish mansion and flew Whitney Houston to Hong Kong for his millennium party. (One trait the duo share is a penchant for being seen with beautiful women; Ka-shing is a widower, and Richard has never married.) When asked which businessman he admires most, Richard mentions not Dad but Sony's co-founder Akio Morita--and he makes clear that questions about his father and their relationship are unwelcome...
Prouty isn't the only businessman to look at India and see untapped opportunity, but he's the only American venture capitalist who lives and works there, 24/7. And being there makes all the difference. A Yale liberal-arts graduate, Prouty spent the first 20 years of his career at Citibank as a senior credit officer lending to multinational companies, and the next 15 financing $100 billion worth of mergers and acquisitions at Lazard Freres before exiting as a general partner. Prouty could have retired. "But that was a sure way to feel like an old man on the shelf...