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One Tuesday each month, Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby leaves his impressive office, decorated with Oriental art, walks through a high-ceilinged corridor, and enters perhaps the most beautiful room on campus—the Faculty Room, replete with throne-like chairs and dozens of portraits of the...
Stringer's task is to turn around the fortunes of one company. For corporate Japan, however, the question is whether his appointment represents a wholesale shift in boardroom thinking. Within Japan itself, Sony has always appeared a bit of a maverick: "Not a typical Japanese company," in the words of...
Lanna-inspired hotels and resorts are popping up like mushrooms in the northernmost provinces. Ultra-chic retreats like the Rachamanka and Tamarind Village have been booked solid in recent months. And now the soft-opened Mandarin Oriental Dhara Dhevi Chiang Mai hotel, tel: (66-53) 888 888, is set to...
But Abbas has also invited suspicion. As a student at the Institute of Oriental Studies in Moscow, he turned in a dissertation, published as a book in Jordan in 1984, that accused the postwar Zionist movement of inflating the number of Jewish Holocaust victims for political gain. While many Israelis...
The 1938 Dangerous to Know was a film version of Edgar Wallace's On the Spot, which Wong had played on Broadway. She's the "hostess," i.e. mistress, of a gangster (Akim Tamiroff) with potent political connections. While he does all the heavy acting, she stands by, stoic and steaming...