Kobe We had been having trouble connecting with some of the planners and professors in our own version of the Sophia Coppola movie, ‘Lost in Translation,’ so we left from Shinkobe (the Kobe subway train station) in plenty of time. Professor Ohnishi had told us to meet his colleague Ikuo Kobayashi, the President of CO–PLAN …
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Kobe’s Recovery
Kobe, Japan Kobe is a port city below Osaka about 3 hours on the bullet train from Tokyo. From the edge of the hills looking down as your eyes travel towards the water, it is really a very pretty town. It is hard to believe today that almost 12 years ago on January 17, 1995 …
Handicapping the Year End Meeting
Dallas The Year End meeting was a back in New Orleans again this year. On the dawn plane there were people heading home in every direction. Reports said that the clubs on Frenchman on Saturday night were all filled with ACORN people. Von’s had been the same way for Kermit Ruffins the night before. At …