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...Obara's Den'en Chofu mansion that the shabby decadence of his post-bubble lifestyle comes into stark focus. The mod 1960s design rises up behind a gated drive, with surveillance cameras poking out from bushes. At the height of the bubble it was worth more than $25 million. Liens were filed against this property when his firm went bust in the early 1990s. Obara continued to frequent the house up until his arrest, letting it slide, like some Dorian Gray portrait of Japan's national psyche, into a state of advanced decay, with rust flaking off the exterior ironwork...
Their offices adjoin each other on the top floor of the company's green glass World Headquarters building, but one look at them gives away the stark differences between Ford and Nasser. Ford's is warm and wood paneled, plastered with pictures of his family and himself. Practically everything--except his grandfather Edsel's desk--is recyclable, and tropical fish swim in a tank on one wall...
...that includes both graduate and undergraduate student representatives selected by their peers in the appropriate duly constituted student organizations. A very small number of bodies include appointed student members who are not duly elected and several include one or a few graduate or undergraduate student representatives. This is in stark contrast to the situation at many other institutions, where both undergraduate and graduate students are automatically guaranteed representation on all university, faculty or department committees...
...film opens with a stark scene of the two main characters having sex. "When we tried to shoot the love scene it really shocked Tony," Cheung recalls. "He refused to do it. For two days he was miserable, lying on his bed. So I went up to him and said, 'Look at me, Tony, I've gone through so many scenes kissing, touching girls, grabbing breasts, do you think I really enjoyed it? Just treat it as a job, a normal love scene. I'm not going to fall in love with you, and I don't want...
President Rudenstine: The choices are stark: being remembered as the man who raised billions of dollars but paid out little to his workers and left an unresolved mess for his successor, or being remembered for working to the end of his tenure and resolving, peacefully, a thorny issue. Rudenstine need only look at the example of former President Nathan M. Pusey, who left office during the anti-Vietnam War protests, for a negative example...