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Capellas, who says he went to WorldCom partly because "there's appeal to being a CEO," was not offered incentives to stick around at HP. In December 2001, Compaq's board amended his severance package so that if he resigned from the merged firm within a year, he would receive a lump-sum payment--worth a previously agreed-to $14 million--within 10 days of his departure. When he left, he also received $1.6 million as part of a loan-forgiveness plan. After the merger, his employment contract was not renegotiated to entice him to stay...
...appeal of fantasy goes deeper than mere nostalgic Luddism. Tolkien, a veteran of the British nightmare at the Somme in World War I, is a poet of war, and we are a nation in need of a good, clear war story. At a time when Americans are wandering deeper into a nebulous conflict against a faceless enemy, Tolkien gives us the war we wish we were fighting--a struggle with a foe whose face we can see, who fights out on the open battlefield, far removed from innocent civilians. In Middle-earth, unlike the Middle East, you can tell...
...abrogating the rule of Sharia, the government found it more expedient to make an ad hoc decree. The woman would not be stoned, it assured the beauty contestants, and this was convincing enough that all of them decided to attend. Again, never mind that Lawal’s last appeal was turned down, or that her lawyers are still concerned about her death sentence. The Nigerian government pretended that everything would turn out all right in this case and the beauty contestants played along...
...wife ... the one I love most on Earth" as sole beneficiary. Given that the gruff Teddy was not known to spout love poetry, the new will's romance novel stylings were a prime reason for its rejection. The fate of Chinachem, a private company, is still murky. Nina will appeal, but for now the nonagenarian Wang Din-shin is Hong Kong's newest centi-millionaire...
...These kind of causes appeal to people who are well-educated and liberal,” he said, “but it needs to be made personal...