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DIED. W. EDWARDS DEMING, 93, American industrial-efficiency expert and guru of the postwar Japanese economic miracle; in Washington. Deming was a modern illustration of the biblical truth that a prophet is without honor in his own land. Educated in mathematics and physics, he worked with Bell Labs' Walter Shewhart during the 1930s developing quality-control theories that stressed achieving uniform results during production rather than through inspection at the end of the production line. During World War II Deming successfully ; applied his approach to the making of airplane parts. Ignored by postwar American industry, the irascible Deming took...
...France. I love Italy, and I am sad about what is happening there. It takes a non-Italian writer and magazine to report on things as they are in Italy, because who in the world would have the courage to call his country a "Land Without Shame" - or honor or heart? There is, however, plenty of material evidence that things are not so terrific in other countries either. But somehow finger pointing has always been easier than self-criticism, and shameful, despicable things always seem to happen elsewhere. Antonio Andriollo Grasse, France...
...wanted him to focus on more of the substantive parts of ‘Beyond Chutzpah’...the human rights abuses in Israel and the ongoing occupation.”But Finkelstein said that he was never told what to discuss and would not honor such a request.“Never in my life have I allowed anyone to dictate to me what I was going to say,” he said. “And [JFP] certainly did not dictate that to me.”Finkelstein’s speech is scheduled to begin...
Representatives from several national publications asserted the need for greater minority representation in the media at a forum held Saturday to honor Diversity and Distinction magazine’s 10th anniversary.Each of four panel members told a different story about his or her struggle as a minority journalist, but all agreed on the need for more minority representation in editorial and managerial positions.Al Young, a desk editor and writer in the Living and Arts Department of the Boston Globe, said that although more minorities are working as reporters, they now need to “break the glass ceiling?...
...Each Kala Dhaka tribe is governed by a jirga, or council of elders, which rules on land disputes, feuds, and matters of clan honor and revenge. As our flotilla pulled up to the riverbank, a jirga and their gunmen were on hand to welcome Mueenuddin. He was escorted up to an ancient shade tree beside a mosque. This was a crucial moment: would the elders allow us to sail upriver, or would they grab all the aid for themselves? Mueenuddin made his case eloquently. A few supplies were dropped off, and I saw a line of men like ants hefting...