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Howard stringer says that sake is "not an antidote to jet lag," but he's sure going to need something that is. The American citizen, born and raised in Britain, was named CEO of Sony Corp. last week, replacing Nobuyuki Idei, 67, who, at a packed press conference in Tokyo, announced that he was voluntarily stepping down. Stringer, 63, is going to keep offices in both Japan and New York, and will continue to spend what little free time he's likely to have at his homes in New York and Oxfordshire, England. That amounts to a lifestyle that...
...editor at the Freeman, smiles sadly when she recalls him: "He was a jolly person, and lively," with a mischievous sense of humor that sometimes got him into trouble. "One day there was flooding in the city," Mercado says. "The chief of police was seen riding piggyback on a citizen, to cross a flooded street, and Allan got that picture. We put it on Page One. The police were so mad, but it's not every day you catch that very moment. As a photojournalist, he had an eye for a good shot...
...It’s kind of appropriate in the 21st century that we honor someone with a Bengali background, originally from India, who established his career on the edge of China, and who is now in Connecticut...He is truly a global citizen,” said Director of Southeast Asia Forum at APARC Donald K. Emmerson, one of the judges from Stanford...
...Over the past year or so, blogging has hit the mainstream and increasingly people have been turning to citizen journalists and bloggers as credible sources of news,” said John G. Palfrey ’94, Executive Director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School (HLS) and Lecturer at HLS, who himself keeps an online blog...
...black. Hip hop dominates media outlets, fashion, sports, artwork, and popular lexicon. Hip hop also serves as an effective tool to politically engage and mobilize youth, as evidenced by Russell Simmons’ Hip Hop Action Network and Sean “P. Diddy” Combs’ Citizen Change project. We have also seen the emergence of hip hop cultures all over the world. Halifu Osumare, a lecturer in African American Studies at University of California Berkeley, stated in a press release regarding his course entitled Power Moves: Hip Hop Culture and Sociology that...