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...highly intelligent individual with superb management skills. But observers in the West are wondering how a foreigner who speaks no Japanese can hope to triumph at a company as clannish and complex as Sony. In fact, Idei himself represented a discontinuity with Sony's past. Unlike his predecessor, Norio Ohga, who was the surrogate son of co-founder Akio Morita, Idei was never viewed as an heir. Insiders referred to him as the company's first "salary-man CEO," implying that he was merely a hire and not a family member. Idei fancied himself as a kind of outsider...
Nasrallah, 44, is used to being heard. Since assuming the group's leadership after Israel assassinated his predecessor, Sheik Abbas Musawi, in 1992, Nasrallah--a bearded, bespectacled Shi'ite cleric who trained in Najaf and Qum--has used Hizballah's resources to build a vast welfare network consisting of dozens of schools, 50 clinics and four hospitals as well as various businesses and farms that employ supporters...
...hiring the tenacious McNeil as his chief spokeswoman in late 2002, Summers established a position that had not existed under his predecessor, Neil L. Rudenstine, and the appointment was seen as recognition that Summers would enlarge the national profile of the Harvard presidency...
...official photograph of Syrian President Bashar Assad is extremely stern. The photos and murals of his father and predecessor Hafez Assad, still festooned throughout Syria, are leavened by the confident gaze and beneficent smile possible only for a dictator in total control. Bashar, however, stares off into the middle distance, working hard to convey vision and strength but avoiding direct eye contact with his subjects. Indeed, the younger Assad, an ophthalmologist by trade who became heir apparent only when his older brother was killed in an automobile crash, remains something of a mystery to just about everyone. "The question...
...unfair to suggest that most of these counselors mistrust and dislike men, argues Michael Green, QC, president of the Shared Parenting Council of Australia and author of the 1998 book Fathers After Divorce, "in some agencies there's an element of feminism." In Green's view, Bryant's predecessor as Chief Justice, Alastair Nicholson, tended to be swayed by the arguments of women's groups and "wasn't especially sympathetic to fathers' concerns." Green, who's also a mediator, believes the centers should be run by a skeleton government staff that would distribute work to a range of mediators - including...