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...That's just the start. Feinberg will oversee the pay at the firms until each has repaid the government - or until he quits, and he has no plans to do so anytime soon. Having established a set of principles on which to base compensation for these execs, Feinberg says it will be easier to pass judgment on next year's pay packages, a process he pledges to start in January...
...does one man evaluate the worth of 700 others? Feinberg asked each company to submit pay proposals for their top 25 executives. Officials at six of the seven asked him to approve base-salary raises for their top guns. He was stunned. "What I learned in this job already is that the gap between what Wall Street thinks is a reasonable paycheck and what Main Street thinks these officials should get is not a gap. It's a chasm," he says...
...buying it? There's pent-up demand among his core fans (his last book came out five years ago), but his editor at W.W. Norton, Robert Weil, thinks this book is reaching beyond Crumb's base. One sign he's right is that it's not just selling in comic book stores. Bookscan reported sales in regular bookstores increased the second week. Amazon says most of its buyers are coming from the West Coast, which is not as surprising as the cautious promotion the book got on religious blogs. (See 10 surprising facts about the world's oldest Bible...
...former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and oil mogul Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who had been stripped of his assets and imprisoned under Putin for fraud. Most of them were skeptical. "It is absolutely clear that one leader cannot modernize the country alone, even the strongest leader, if he has no support base of his own," Khodorkovsky wrote from his prison cell in a piece published in the daily Vedomosti newspaper on Oct. 21. (See pictures of Russia celebrating Victory...
...Putin enjoys the largest support base in Russia, with his political party, United Russia, controlling 315 of the 450 seats in the Duma. Medvedev's manifesto implied that the party's super-majority would eventually need to be broken up and its control of the bureaucratic machinery dissolved. This prospect, though seemingly impossible, provided opposition leaders with a rallying cry heading into elections on Oct. 11 to choose representatives in 76 of the country's 83 regional governments...