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...Peter G. Peterson, an American involved in the Sony-Columbia deal, wondered why Sony's acquisition was so controversial, while an Australian firm's attempted takeover of MGM/UA "was mainly treated by the media as a minor business news item." Part of the answer, he suggested in the Wall Street Journal, is a "media pandering to American xenophobia and latent racism." Sony chairman Akio Morita, noting the U.S. Government's World War II internment of Japanese Americans, surmised that Americans still see the Japanese as "strangers...
...Peterson and Morita have a point. When Australian Rupert Murdoch was taking substantial control of major American media properties (including Metromedia Inc. and 20th Century Fox), little was written about the dangers of media manipulation from Down Under. Reportage focused less on the fact that the predator was Australian (Murdoch has since acquired American citizenship) than that he was Murdoch. Nor did warnings sound when Canada's Thomson Newspapers acquired more than 100 papers...
...make [the houses] completely diverse isn't a good idea. [But the socioeconomic differences] I think are a problem," said Holworthy Hall resident Steven L. Peterson...
...seems that the 50 percent won't change the character [of the stereotyped houses]," said Peterson. "You'll just stick people in that wouldn't want to be part of that character," he added...
Last Friday The Crimson incorrectly reported that the March Hare in Alice in Wonderland: Film at Eleven was played by Steve Robinson. Steve Peterson played the March Hare in the show which continues this weekend at the Loeb Mainstage Theater...