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...through winning community support. For the past year, he has labored tirelessly to transform the Murad Khane slum in Kabul's 200-year-old city center into a heritage district and tourist magnet for Afghans and foreigners alike. At first, local reaction was about the same as one would expect if some bowler-hatted Brit showed up at a Rio favela and proposed that he help residents spruce the place up. "I told him he would fail," says Palawan Aziz, the neighborhood's headman and now the project's strongest supporter. Stewart persevered, visiting residents and charming them with courtly...
With Nonaka gone, analysts expect Sanyo to sell losing divisions while focusing on its best product: rechargeable batteries. But even her critics say that Nonaka may simply have been ahead of her time. Better-financed companies are attempting the same kind of corporate reinvention with more success. Archer Daniels Midland, the U.S. food-processing giant, has become a hot stock-market play as America's largest producer of ethanol, an alternative fuel. "The direction toward environmental issues is the right one," says Tatsuya Mizuno, an analyst with Fitch Ratings. But it's too soon for some CEOs to bet that...
...Yeah, I expect to swim in a sea of universal love all the time and when I’m not in that sea I get upset...
...travel, work and live in the United States, many Koreans were dumbfounded when they discovered this morning that the "Asian" campus killer was in fact a 23-year-old South Korean citizen. "I was shocked," says Hong, Sung Pyo, 65, a textile executive in Seoul. "We don't expect Koreans to shoot people, so we feel very ashamed and also worried." Most important, he adds, "we don't want Americans to think all Koreans are this...
...would never expect a basketball program ecstatic to achieve a top-150 RPI each year to recruit a coach who has led a team to the Sweet Sixteen. It would never cross an alum’s mind that a coach who was mentored by Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski, as a player from 1984 to 1987 and as an assistant coach from 1988 to 1997, would at one time prowl the sidelines of Lavietes’ hardwood floor...