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Come fashion-show time, Japanese publications feed consumers at home blow-by-blow reports of the trendy items worn by Western fashion editors. Outside the Christian Dior show, a black, chauffeur-driven Mercedes pulls up to the curb. As the door opens, a flock of Japanese photographers (mostly male) and reporters (mostly female) gathers around the sassy blonde passenger, dressed in stripes and wearing sneaker-styled stilettos. This is not Kate Moss or Gwyneth Paltrow. This is Emer Paul, fashion editor of U.K. Glamour. "Can we get your picture please?" someone asks. Before she can reply, the photographers begin snapping...
...edition - a thirtyish urban male in a low-key, white-collar job, a somewhat passive fellow who doesn't expect much out of life and takes what comes with jaded equanimity. Like the narrators of Raymond Carver's stories - Murakami is Carver's translator - they are unremarkable men, less driven by the ethic to succeed and less enmeshed in the powerful webs of family and business and community than most Japanese, living like college students well beyond their college days. In this, I suspect, may lie some of the popular appeal of Murakami's novels for Japanese and Western readers...
...TIME: Everybody used to think the keiretsu system was a brilliant business model. Not anymore. Why? Ghosn: The keiretsu system can be very effective if it is performance-driven, if you develop strong cross functionality. If it becomes a tradition, a cozy way of doing business, then you're lost...
Parents are also driven by something a lot more primal: old-fashioned guilt. Even as men take on more responsibility for rearing children, the lion's share of baby care is still handled by mothers. But in an era in which it often takes two incomes to meet the monthly nut, increasing numbers of moms can't spend nearly as much time with their kids as they'd like. In 1999, 62% of mothers worked outside the home. That figure was 54% in 1985 and just 44% in 1975. "Parents feel tremendous guilt because they feel they're spreading themselves...
...Driven...