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GIs used an affectionate term for Japanese men: sonny or sonny boy. To many, that surely sounded condescending. But to strivers like Ibuka and Morita, it sounded like money. We “thought of ourselves as ‘sonny-boys’ in those days,” Morita noted. “We were little boys in the business of sound.” They knocked off an n and trademarked the name: Sony.
How to Hide an Empire
Daniel Immerwahr
The court has repeatedly upheld the principle that the Constitution applies to some parts of the country but not others. That’s why a citizen on the mainland has a constitutional right to trial by jury, but when that citizen travels to Puerto Rico, the right vanishes.
How to Hide an Empire
Daniel Immerwahr
I tell you this to break your heart, by which I mean only that it break open and never close again to the rest of the world.
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