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...photos of the Emperor, flags, swords and even shortwave radios that could be turned into transmitters. Still, the police on the sugar plantation where we lived led the FBI into Japanese homes. Many people were rounded up: language teachers and martial-arts instructors as well as labor leaders and businessmen. My future father-in-law was arrested at rifle point and incarcerated in one of 10 relocation camps. Second-generation Japanese-American soldiers in the 298th and 299th Regiments were asked to leave the service, their rifles taken away...
Langley's writing isn't quite up to her reporting. Beyond Weill, the characters seem flat and their stories just litanies of facts. But the facts speak volumes about one of the greatest businessmen of the past century. Weill doesn't get to go out a hero--at least not yet. Citi has been sullied by evidence that its stock analysts touted shares of suspect firms to win their investment-banking business, and Weill has promised to do "whatever it takes" to get the firm in order. He's nearly 70 but has shown little interest in naming a successor...
...still be a few surprises," commented a Washington source familiar with the process. Opposition to publishing the names came primarily from the State Department and the CIA, says a State Department official. The diplomats worried that they didn't have enough evidence, particularly when it came to influential businessmen and religious figures whose inclusion could sour relations with some Southeast Asian governments. The CIA contends that going public will push JI's funders underground. Better, they argue, to keep them where their dealings and associates can be monitored...
Nevertheless, Oedipal conflict certainly plays a role in the subtext of the film. Hallam’s spooky taunting of his victims, hunters who search for deer with high powered scopes, applies as much to Friedkin’s directorial predecessors as to the trigger-happy “businessmen from Medford” who become Hallam’s first victims: “There’s no reverence in what...
...these aspiring businessmen and women, Cakebread’s hands-on approach to introducing the wine industry was the major selling point. “It’s rare to get so much exposure to a CEO,” says Punwani. It’s also rare to have that much exposure to all the free wine one could possibly drink, but FM would never suggest that this had anything to do with amplifying the experience (burp...