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...always murenai," observes political commentator Nobuhiko Shima, "outside the group. He always went his own way. Now, in Japan, outsiders are respected. It's a big change." Entrepreneurial tycoon Masayoshi Son is Korean; Nissan fix-it man Carlos Ghosn is Brazilian. Both have successfully challenged the traditional rules of Japanese business. "It is the time for the outsiders in Japan," says Shima...
...through the Lamberts’ perceptions and reactions to those things. For in the end, the novel is about exactly what its title suggests. A correction in the stock market is but one of many kinds of corrections, or attempts at them, in the book. We can try to fix situations in our own lives, but a correction can also be produced seemingly naturally. A system that is unbalanced or skewed will adjust itself. Can the life of a person or a family make corrections on its own? Gary envisions his life as a correction to his father?...
...other social problems, is cyclical in nature. How would a parent understand the importance of books if books were not emphasized in his or her own childhood? How is any stressed parent, struggling to make ends meet, supposed to know that giving in to tantrums is only a temporary fix, and that they should take the opportunity lay down boundaries...
...begin to congregate, poking around in the clothing stores, buying yakitori on sticks from street vendors and horsing around. Some of the men later make their way to the dance clubs, others to the billiard bars. As midnight approaches, carloads of women pull into the parking lots nearby. They fix their lipstick in the rearview mirrors and tease out their hair as if according to some military instruction manual. It's as if they're going into battle...
...teachers. Which may not be a bad thing if you think teacher education programs waste everyone?s time on useless blather like "metacognition" and "modality processing." But as districts race to lower their entrance barriers, it isn?t clear whether staffing classrooms with amateurs is simply a short-term fix (that could have lasting harmful consequences) or a cost-effective long-term solution to our nation?s teacher shortage...