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More galling is exorbitant CEO pay at companies with laggard stocks. Gil Amelio, the new CEO of struggling Apple Computer, received total compensation valued at $23 million last year while Apple shareholders lost 40% on their investment. Nolan Archibald, CEO of Black & Decker, received total compensation of $6.5 million even though shareholder returns were a pathetic negative 13%. To be fair, in the case of Amelio, $16 million of his package was in stock options. That will prove vastly overstated if he can't fix what ails Apple, and if he does fix it, he's probably worth every penny...
...Mark Schuster '74, the jazz band at Harvard actually started as an unofficial organization four years before director Tom Everett was hired. The band at that time was called the 'Prescott Sodality,' (named for the street their rehearsal space was on), and it was led by a student, David Archibald '71. Soon after Everett was hired, the Sunday and Monday Jazz Bands were formed and they have continued to this...
Some truly notable descendants of Thomas and Mary (Perkins) Bradbury include Ralph Waldo Emerson 1832 and the astronaut Allan Shephard. Notable descendants of John and Judith (Gater) Perkins of Ipswich include Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, Calvin Coolidge, Millard Fillmore, Max Perkins, Archibald Cox, the Harvard law professor, Lucille Ball, Montgomery Clift, Anthony Perkins and Tennessee Williams. --Martin E. Hollick, reference librarian for the Widener and Lamont libraries
When Leon Jaworski took over the Watergate investigation from the fired Archibald Cox, some thought the new special prosecutor would be too soft: "Quietly, efficiently, going his own way, Jaworski has turned out to be nobody's man but his own, determined that justice be done...From the White House point of view, he is no improvement on Cox. He is often even more tenacious and less tolerant of anything that stands in his way. A pragmatic and informal man with a prosecutor's instinct for the kill, Jaworski is not so interested as Cox was in legal theory...
...Boylston professorship which Heaney will vacate is one of the University's oldest and most distinguished chairs. The position was first occupied by John Quincy Adams in the early 1800s, and was later held by poets Archibald MacLeish and Robert Fitzgerald...