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...feudal loyalty that governed its ways. Stringer stands outside the firm's hierarchical family system. His inherent foreignness may well provide him a degree of freedom to maneuver, which none of his illustrious predecessors enjoyed. His challenge will be to integrate Sony's electronics and entertainment businesses, which depend on content creation and distribution, into the single value chain that has been Idei's vision for Sony. If Stringer fails, Japan's business community might experience a relief that is deeper-seated than mere schadenfreude. His success might aggravate the self-uncertainty that is endemic in Japan today...
...that can only come from personal experience. "We did hold on to that magical quality," she says of her relationship with Paula. "But it was just different as we got older. You value that relationship just as much as you did, but you [become] aware that you can't depend on this relationship in the way that you used to, because it's going to hinder you as an adult." Neither this awareness, nor her sister's death, has dampened her enthusiasm for life and work. Evans, who lives with her partner of eight years and their 12-week...
...whether Negroponte succeeds or fails in his new job will depend largely on the force of his personality as well as the strength of his relationship with the President. After the announcement of his nomination, Negroponte returned to the State Department. While grabbing a snack in the cafeteria, he bumped into a fellow ambassador, who complimented him for maintaining the element of surprise until the President was ready to break the big news. "The first requirement of the national director of intelligence," Negroponte deadpanned, "is being able to keep a secret." But unless the officeholder can make sure secrets...
...rough patches. But "rough patch" hardly begins to describe all the bad news that has battered the agency over the past few months, from the possible suicide risks with antidepressants like Prozac, Paxil and Zoloft to the cardiac risks of pain-killers like Vioxx, Celebrex and Bextra. Americans depend on the FDA to carefully weigh the benefits and risks of all drugs before approving them, but the agency has had trouble lately shaking the growing perception, justified or not, that it has been working harder protecting the pharmaceutical industry than the public it's supposed to serve...
...present immigration quotas were set in 1996. This may be bad news for the territory. With a fertility rate of 0.91 per woman, just a third of what it was 30 years ago and the lowest in the world according to the U.N., Hong Kong has come to depend on a steady influx of mainlanders to keep its work force growing. Without these new migrants, the entrepreneurial financial center is in danger of losing its edge. "Immigrants keep the population young and ambitious and help drive Hong Kong's competitiveness," says Dr. Wing Suen, a University of Hong Kong economist...