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Drexel officials are shocked by the backlash, which a spokesman calls "much ado about nothing." The firm contends that many of the bonuses were promised to executives early in 1989 and that Drexel's best and brightest might have quit en masse if such rewards had not been dangled before them. Nevertheless, Drexel violated one of the cardinal rules of compensation: that bonuses should be linked to corporate performance...
Theory one: Much Ado About Nothing. Republican party loyalists insist that it's not intellectual manliness. President Bush has explained Quayle's assertions away. They don't exist; they are only nuances in emphases, only subtle intonations, only subjective expressions of the same responses...
...interested in being rich and famous," he avers, "in smoking a big cigar and driving a big car. I want to stay human-size, just as I wanted to make Henry V as manlike as possible." He plans to shoot two films in 1991: a Shakespeare comedy, perhaps Much Ado About Nothing, and a modern story set in Chicago. Meanwhile, he may write a novel. And at night he will read himself to sleep with a good book...
...Secretary Cecil Parkinson was forced to resign when it became public knowledge that his mistress was about to bear his illegitimate child. Sixteen years ago, Air Force Minister Lord Lambton lost his job when photographers caught him in bed with two prostitutes. As the tabloids breathlessly chronicled the latest ado, political circles in London fell into that giddy state that only a really juicy scandal can produce. Even a former Deputy Prime Minister, Lord Whitelaw, commented sarcastically: "Very interesting in many ways," he said of the Pamella Bordes affair, "and rather amusing...
...believer when some of his associates were infected. "It isn't the fall of Western civilization," says Kapor, "but the problem is real and the threat is serious." Scientific American's Dewdney has had a similar change of heart. "At first I thought these new outbreaks were much ado about nothing," he says. "But I'm now convinced that they are a bigger threat than I imagined...