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...Sony has always appeared a bit of a maverick: "Not a typical Japanese company," in the words of Richard Katz, editor of the Oriental Economist newsletter. Edward Lincoln, of the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C., and author of the book Arthritic Japan: The Slow Pace of Economic Reform, points out that Sony was the first Japanese company to list on the New York Stock Exchange and the first to adopt a Western-style management structure with a board that comprised insider and independent directors alike. "Sony is a global enterprise, so it was expected that at some point...
...Each country in the Middle East will take a different path of reform. And every nation that starts on that journey can know that America will walk at its side." GEORGE W. BUSH, U.S. President, on recent steps toward democracy in Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, in a speech at the U.S. National Defense University...
...excavation of the office, in which three fax machines, several phones, and a Plinko board, among other things, were unearthed, is a little like what Glazer hopes to do during his two semesters at the helm of the UC, with a structural reform committee already at work on making proposals for changes to the makeup of the organization...
...sizable benefit to choosing blockmates demands strong opposition to scrapping the process entirely—Yale-style housing has unfortunately been put on the table—but the most commonly touted reform proposal, changing the number of members allowed in each blocking group, is similarly unsatisfactory...
...people like Ntirushwamaboko will bolster claims that the Tutsi, too, committed genocide. That troubles some outside observers. "If you give justice only to one group of people, I'm not sure that will have a reconciliatory effect," says Jean-Charles Paras, head of the Rwandan mission for Penal Reform International. "Quite the contrary, actually." Another flaw, say critics, is the reliance on confessions. In many cases, the perpetrators are the only living witnesses to their crimes. The promise of a lighter sentence could be an incentive to implicate others, sometimes falsely. And many of the accused admit only...