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Wisse told the Chronicle of Higher Education last month that it is crucial that the new professor be fluent in scholarship on Jewish culture...
Idei appears to be inspired by Morita, who years ago foresaw the integration of entertainment electronics hardware and software. Like Morita, Idei is cosmopolitan, speaking fluent English and French and favoring stylish suits. As a youth he dreamed of becoming a violinist but gave that up to major in economics at Tokyo's Waseda University. Idei is now Sony's guru, instructing engineers--his Digital Dream Kids--in the art of merging home electronics with information technology. "We're going to make the home much more exciting," Idei predicts...
...donations to the Democratic Party. It's all in a month's work for Weisskopf, who in 19 years at the Washington Post garnered a fistful of journalism honors, including Pulitzer nominations and a George Polk Award. He was well prepared to follow the Asian money trail with the fluent Mandarin he perfected in two tours in Beijing--from 1980 to 1985, and again in 1989 to cover the Tiananmen uprising...
...Middleburg, Virginia, estate gathered more than $3 million for candidate Bill Clinton. The grateful President was happy to send her back in triumph to France, a country she had loved since sneaking away as a teenager for a weekend in Paris with a married earl. As ambassador, her fluent French, hard work and access to the highest officials in Washington and Paris eased the sting of such contentious Franco-American issues as NATO expansion and differences over the Middle East, U.N. leadership and trade...
...best part of the good side could be intensely moving--if you got past the stage of feeling merely seduced. At moments (one evening in Louisville, Kentucky, for example, at a kind of torchlight rally outside the old Louisville Slugger factory) Clinton's fluent, fervent idealism seemed to open a door--a sentimental one, perhaps--upon a sweeter, better side of America, the side full of promise: the quality he means to suggest when he talks about the Hope of his Arkansas childhood. Whatever his defects, which are manifold, he seems to have no violence in him, no hatred...