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...reason Sousuke Uno got the Prime Minister's job in the wake of the Recruit influence-peddling scandal was that he was widely regarded as Mr. Clean. Last week that reputation was impugned from an unexpected quarter: a former geisha who claimed to have been his lover. SCOOP: A SCANDAL INVOLVING PRIME MINISTER UNO, shrieked a headline in the weekly magazine Sunday Mainichi. In an interview, the 40-year-old, otherwise unidentified former geisha said Uno paid her about $21,000 during a five-month affair that began in October 1985. She portrayed Uno as bullying and self-aggrandizing...
...have a way to go. Opposition leaders and some L.D.P. members have criticized the choice of Uno, a former member of the faction led by ex-Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, during whose administration (1982-87) the Recruit Co. helped line politicians' pockets by offering to sell them stock in its real estate subsidiary at reduced rates before it went public. The next chapter of the Recruit scandal may be written when voters go to the polls next month to fill 126 seats in the upper house of the Diet...
...Harvard went out tomorrow to recruit all the well-respected people in the field and had enough money to do it, there still wouldn't be enough" to amass a respectably sized faculty, says James A. Robins, assistant professor of strategic management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business...
...rectify the situation, faculty members have said that they are working to recruit more teaching staff...
...certainly a significantfactor. I'm not familiar enough with the Harvardscene to say whether that's the dominant factor orone of 20 factors. The pool of women who are verywell-trained who want to be at a particularinstitution is very small. One has to make anextraordinary effort to recruit them, but everyonein the country is trying to recruit them...