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Wearing a dark jacket over blue pajama bottoms, and supported by bodyguards, the 46-year-old moonwalker did a slow, frail moon swoon past the gaggle of reporters. The moment had echoes of the famous James Brown routine, in which the soul man, feigning exhaustion, would be shepherded toward the wings by bandmates, only to break free and sing one more chorus of Please, Please, Please. Jackson's version was pretty persuasive ... until he heard the encouraging cries of his admirers. Instantly he executed a neck swivel in their direction. His body might have been in agony...
...Asian companies will likely take on more outsiders as CEOs and directors in coming years as they strive to improve management and compete on a global scale. But the process will be painfully slow. Many major Asian firms are controlled by families or a single dominant shareholder, patriarchs who feel little pressure from minority shareholders to bring in fresh blood, no matter how badly the company may be performing. Sony is an exception?its directors and senior executives hold just 0.12% of the stock, which is widely traded in Tokyo and New York...
...thinking. Within Japan itself, 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...
Dosed with morphine three times a day, Bozik has long red scars from more than 20 surgeries, is making slow progress with his prostheses, often falls asleep at 3 p.m. because of his agonizing and exhausting physical therapy, and won't be able to leave Walter Reed for many more months. He has pins and plates in all three stumps and in his remaining left arm, plus a lifelong elevated risk of arthritis, back and heart problems. But he's alive and thanks God every day for that...
...laptop computer and allow the witness to view them privately. Iowa State University psychology professor Gary Wells, who has been advocating sequential lineups for almost 30 years, contends that they will be the dominant procedure across the country in five to seven years. "It's been a slow awakening," he says, "but it's finally happening." --By Kristin Kloberdanz