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...TMZ.com), a leading business site (Yahoo Finance), along with a popular tech blog, (AOL's Engadget). The cash infusion from Time Warner (in exchange for a 20% stake in Yahoo/AOL), would enable Yahoo to buy back some of its stock, which would likely elevate its stock price. "The chief benefit to Yahoo is the avoidance of a Microsoft deal," notes analyst Greg Sterling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fight for Yahoo: Five Scenarios | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

...need to introduce new laws to stop teenage crime. We need to be very tough on guns, drugs and alcohol. Parents and teachers should be given more of a role in building children's character. They should be allowed to take the actions they deem necessary for kids' benefit. Hasan Raza Gondal, Birmingham, England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

...nearly $32-million pay package for the year, while the company's stock languished. "We had reached a level of frustration because it seemed CEO pay, no matter what we did as activist investors, kept spiraling out of control," says Richard Ferlauto, AFSCME's director of pension and benefit policy. The quintessential example: after Congress passed a law that gave companies incentives to cap CEO base salaries at $1 million a year, the issuance of stock options, an alternative way to pad pay packages, skyrocketed - to the point that by 2005, average large-company CEO compensation had reached 262 times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Giving Investors a Say on CEO Pay | 4/9/2008 | See Source »

Sangu J. Delle ’10 and Darryl W. Finkton ’10 were discussing ways to benefit communities outside the Cambridge and Boston area when they thought of Project Access to Clean Water for Agyemanti, a student group founded last spring...

Author: By Brittany M Llewellyn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bringing Clean Water to All | 4/9/2008 | See Source »

High school minus the prom and plus a less awkward health class, single-sex education has long been a contentious hotspot of the academic world. Many proponents argue that adolescents benefit socially and academically from being able to develop without feeling pressure or judgment from the opposite sex; but others feel that single-sex education creates an unrealistic bubble that inhibits the development of social skills and reinforces gender stereotypes. Harvard, with many of its students hailing from the various single-sex high schools across the country, is the perfect place to test this debate. These students’ experiences...

Author: By Samantha F. Drago, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: When Boy Meets Girl | 4/9/2008 | See Source »

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