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Fresh from a two-year sabbatical in Washington, Ford Professor of the Social Sciences Ezra F. Vogel assumed the directorship of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research this month...
...Vogel, a sociologist who has written extensively on China and Japan, said he hopes, as director, to inform the "policy-relevant public" about East Asia and to encourage research on the linkages between Asian countries...
...Public opinion is generally not well-informed, and so one of my thrusts is to talk in a more general way," Vogel said. "A lot of the academic work is so specialized that it doesn't communicate to the public at large...
...General Electric chairman Jack Welch and News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch, would enter the bidding for Turner. But Murdoch denied any interest; and GE indicated that while it would not try to break up this deal, it remained interested in Turner if the Time Warner acquisition failed. Says Harold Vogel, a media analyst at Cowen & Co.: "The only thing that's clear is that Turner Broadcasting is in play. Ted has turned from a buyer into a seller...
Although the Center for Islamic Legal studies is still being formed, Vogel said that Pakistan's gift will be used immediately...