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...inexperienced. At 38 he was Mazda's youngest president ever--younger, in fact, than the average employee. He wore sharp suits (and still does). He had a habit of speaking in marketing lingo (which he no longer does). And like most foreigners in Japan, he committed the occasional faux pas. At one of his first dinners out with executives, he poured his own beer--a no-no among Japanese businessmen...
...think it is a faux pas to talk about these things openly at Harvard, but when it comes right down to it, many of us will take time off to have families,” Nell G. Brennan ’02 said. “There’s this strange pressure here that silences you, because you realize that we need women in those upper positions, and the only reason why we all managed to succeed is because women took risks and came over to Harvard from Radcliffe. It’s awful in this society that...
...torn sheets of paper or wrinkled photographs. In “Sometimes a Cigar is Just a Cigar, and Sometimes a Pipe is Not a Pipe,” he works from a reference to Rene Magritte’s classic “Ceci n’est pas une pipe” and from a smouldering cigar; he exposes organic components of heart, bone and vascular tissue in boxed-off frames. The work juxtaposes Homer Simpson with a Renaissance pencil portrait and a photograph of Sigmund Freud with a cartoon of a non-Disneyfied Pinnochio figure. The sheer...
...Faux Pas (international.monster.com/workabroad)
...last page called “dos and don’ts.” There is a different theme each month and each picture (most of them of real, unsuspecting people) features a woman doing something that is either fashion forward or a huge fashion faux pas. After having leafed casually through pages of beautifully coiffed hair, flawless make-up and perfect teeth, it’s refreshing to see the camera turned on real people for a change...