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When Mark Fields became president of Mazda in December 1999, he seemed like the kind of American who would try to bulldoze through Japan's porcelain corporate culture--and slink home in frustration. A native New Yorker with a Harvard M.B.A., he appeared slick, headstrong and inexperienced. At 38 he was Mazda's youngest president ever--younger, in fact, than the average employee. He wore sharp suits (and still does). He had a habit of speaking in marketing lingo (which he no longer does). And like most foreigners in Japan, he committed the occasional faux...
...ages 14 to 17, join with teens from such places as the Middle East, India, Pakistan, Greece and Turkey to canoe, swim and play sports together. The campers also spend time in sessions in which they learn how to listen to one another with respect and compassion. Says New Yorker Liz Carlin, 17, who attended Seeds twice as a camper and returns this year as a volunteer: "Now I try to get as many perspectives as possible about current events and to start dialogues about what's happening in other places in my school through activities and clubs...
Though Jen does not like to be labeled an Asian-American author, her stories and articles predominantly focus on the experiences of Chinese immigrants in America. They have been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and The Republic, as well as in numerous textbooks and collections...
...something that does not blow up civilians on a bus, drive tanks through refugee camps, molest children or plot to destroy America," wrote a relieved Virginian. "I'm content to focus on events that take place a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away." Agreed a New Yorker: "A little comic relief is frequently necessary for survival, when we consider the times we live in." And a North Carolina teen asked, "Can't this crazy world learn a thing or two from that sagacious Jedi master, Yoda...
...Yorker,” Halberstam says, “When I was young, I went 12,000 miles [to Vietnam] to find danger...and years later it happened four miles from my house...