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...control is popping up high on the priority list of a growing number of cities around the world fed up with the gunk on their sidewalks. In London, representatives from Belfast, Cardiff and other British cities gathered last month for a summit on gum pollution. London's Oxford Street alone is smeared with some 300,000 bits of used gum; chew-goo cleanup costs Britain an estimated $290 million a year. A new bill in Parliament would fine gum droppers...
...must be thrilling to assume command of Sony, a luminous icon of Japan's postwar recovery. Thrilling, and perhaps sobering. Howard Stringer read history at Oxford, and now he is making it as the latest in a short list of Westerners to be installed as chief executive of a Japanese corporation. Doubtless, Stringer is aware that the significance of his promotion extends beyond Sony to the larger context of the convulsive changes that are transforming the landscape of Japanese society...
DIED. PETER BENENSON, 83, British lawyer and pioneering human-rights crusader who founded Amnesty International; of pneumonia; in Oxford, England. As a teenager he raised money to help children orphaned by the Spanish Civil War. In 1961 he launched Amnesty International to help those he called "prisoners of conscience," after reading about two Portuguese students jailed for toasting liberty. He early on resigned his leadership of the London-based group--now with nearly 2 million members worldwide--but remained a passionate activist...
Even some members of the press corps were surprised by the size of the media circus at the corner of Kirkland and Oxford Streets yesterday. “A comment that may or may not have been sexist has 17 camera crews on it,” said an incredulous David Buswell-Wilde, a cameraman for the Boston-area ABC affiliate WCVB Channel...
...camera crews that jostled for space at the corner of Oxford and Kirkland proved ill-positioned for shots of Summers as he left the Faculty meeting last night. The University president followed an alternate route from the from Lowell Lecture Hall and proceeded onto Divinity Avenue...