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...Japan like an earthquake. Stringer may not be the first Westerner to take the helm of a major Japanese company, but his ascension trumps Carlos Ghosn's 1999 appointment to the executive suite of Nissan Motors in significant ways. First, unlike Nissan, Sony is not just one of many world-class Japanese companies; it is the quintessential Japanese company, linked to the nation's identity as the very embodiment of the country's postwar economic miracle. Second, Renault, which owns 44% of Nissan, forced Ghosn upon Japan's second largest automaker, whereas Sony willingly sought Stringer's assistance...
...first Sauvignon Blanc was harvested in Marlborough a mere 30 years ago. Mild, fruity whites are what the country is most associated with, but the long-held perception that New Zealand's terroir isn't suited to reds has finally been overcome by a number of wineries producing world-class Pinot Noir. The silt-loam soils of New Zealand yield a Pinot Noir somewhere between the robust Australian reds beloved of influential American critic Robert Parker and the more complex Bordeaux wines. Some Kiwi wineries have even taken on the Australian stranglehold on Shiraz, or Syrah as it's sometimes...
Tennis hopeful Jamie Hunt, 16, felt he could not become a world-class junior player while attending a regular school. The international circuit has players on the road 50% of the time?and it's hard to focus on your backhand when you're worrying about being on time for homeroom. So in 2003 Hunt, who hones his ground strokes at Elite TNT Tennis Academy in April Sound, Texas, enrolled for academics in the $9,750-a-year University of Miami Online High School (UMOHS), a virtual school that caters to athletes. "The online school gives me the flexibility...
Tennis hopeful Jamie Hunt, 16, felt he could not become a world-class junior player while attending a regular school. The international circuit has players on the road 50% of the time - and it's hard to focus on your backhand when you're worrying about being on time for homeroom. So in 2003 Hunt, who hones his ground strokes at Elite TNT Tennis Academy in April Sound, Texas, enrolled for academics in the $9,750-a-year University of Miami Online High School (UMOHS), a virtual school that caters to athletes. "The online school gives me the flexibility...
...important to the University that we continue to work with the city and the neighborhood to meet the needs of both a livable community and of a world-class teaching and research institution,” Summers said...