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When Circuit Court Judge Byron Kinder stepped to the bench in his Jefferson City, Mo., courtroom one day last week, he looked down on an unusual audience: 100 lawyers. They were not there by choice; they had come in response to a subpoena that warned, "Fail not to appear at your own peril." All 100 work for Missouri agencies based in Jefferson City, the state capital. In a drastic and perhaps unprecedented step, Kinder had summoned them so that he could press them into service as public defenders for indigent criminal defendants...
...Christopher Byron. Reported by Gary Lee/Washington and Bruce van Voorst/Brussels
...Christopher Byron...
...impressed by the businessmen's polite and meticulous ways. Says Grieves: "When I talked to a Japanese executive, he usually had an assistant there to handle all the details." The cover story was edited by Senior Editor George Taber and written by Associate Editor Christopher Byron. Says Byron: "The Japanese have built their entire culture on contradictions, but at the core is the notion that teamwork pays dividends. It's an idea that most Americans are now ready to relearn...
...Locke to Oliver Wendell Holmes believe that individuality at some point has to give ground to group needs. It has taken a successful country on the rim of Asia to remind the U.S. that teamwork, however it is organized, is still the prerequisite for a prosperous society. -By Christopher Byron. Reported by S. Chang and Edwin M. Reingold/Tokyo