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...While attending a six-month Stanford program in Japan, Yang met his wife Akiko Yamazaki, who was also a Stanford student. They have one child...
...child of Lithuanian Jewish immigrants to South Africa, Kerzner grew up in the back alleys of Johannesburg, and was an amateur boxer before becoming a chartered accountant. He decided to go into the inn-keeping business after his parents bought a modest hotel in the coastal resort of Durban. Still in his 20s, he built the Beverly Hills Hotel, the country's first five-star accommodation. In partnership with South African Breweries, he eventually accumulated 30 hotels stretching from Cape Town across to the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius...
...Staff writer Maxwell L. Child can be reached at mchild@fas.harvard.edu...
...statue of one young boy carrying another on his back, with the words chiseled underneath, "He ain't heavy, Father, he's m' brother." During the Great Depression, parents would scrape together bus fare and hang a sign that read "Take Me to Boys Town" around their child's neck. Tysheema Brown, the Atlanta woman who drove 1,000 miles to Omaha to drop off her 12-year-old son, had been taken to Boys Town herself as a teenager. She had tried to get a spot for him in a similar Georgia institution for six months and failed. During...
...appoint its own Dalai Lama, just as it did nearly two decades ago in the case of the second highest ranking monk in the Tibetan hierarchy, the Panchen Lama. "He's already indicated that he's ready to consider a number of non-traditional possibilities such as appointing a child successor now or having a lay person follow him around, or even contemplating having a woman successor," says Barnett. "This seems to be turning into the forum where they can discuss issues like that...