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...strike against her. Nonaka was a female CEO in a business culture that is overwhelmingly male. A more timid executive would have charted a cautious course, focusing on slashing costs at a company that lost $1.6 billion in its 2005 fiscal year. But Nonaka, a former TV journalist, instead announced a bold plan to transform Sanyo into a leader in environmentally friendly products. "The 21st century is about turning away from oil to alternate forms of energy," Nonaka, 52, told TIME shortly after her appointment as Sanyo CEO and chairwoman. "It's about sustainability, and Sanyo will be the solution...
...world wasn't ready for Nonaka's vision. Sanyo's losses continued to mount. Nonaka lost the CEO title last year, and she resigned as chairwoman in March. Her radical program, dubbed Think Gaia, "was a very good strategy," says Yasuyuki Onishi, a Tokyo-based financial journalist who wrote a recent book on Sanyo's woes. "But it wasn't the right time to think Gaia. Sanyo had to think for itself...
Even in the volatile Gaza Strip, hostage taking had at least one firm rule. Journalists were released quickly, usually with tea and apologies. Those customs seem to have been thrown out with the case of respected BBC correspondent Alan Johnston, 44, grabbed by gunmen in Gaza on March 12. So far, it is not clear why the broadcast journalist was kidnapped. No demands have been forthcoming, only a harrowing and probably false communiqué from a group calling itself the Tawheed and Jihad Brigades, claiming that Johnston had been executed--revenge, it intimated, for the fate of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli...
...comped The Crimson but never finished. Savage wrote three articles for The Crimson’s editorial board and one for the news board before moving on to work at Mission Hill and Harvard Model Congress. “Being an English major is great training for being a journalist,” Savage said in a phone interview. He explained that the skills needed for analyzing a long piece of prose are the same as those needed for analyzing, digesting, and explaining lengthy government documents. Daniel M. Engber ’98, now a writer for Slate...
...larger culture can help as well - particularly the media. It may be uncomfortable for any journalist to admit it, but the flood-the-zone coverage that usually follows mass murders simply confirms a potential killer's belief that what he sees as his small and inconsequential life can end on a large and monstrous chord, even if he won't be around to enjoy the transformation. "We glorify and revere these seemingly powerful people who take life," says Kaye. "Meanwhile, I bet you couldn't tell me the name of even one of Ted Bundy's victims...