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...destroyed." Those who criticize the church - journalists, doctors, lawyers and even judges - often find themselves engulfed in litigation, stalked by private eyes, framed for fictional crimes, beaten up or threatened with death. Psychologist Margaret Singer, 69, an outspoken Scientology critic and professor at the University of California, Berkeley, now travels regularly under an assumed name to avoid harassment...
...rewards of being topical carry with them the risks of overfamiliarity. That is the problem with the six case studies that make up the heart of Illiberal Education. D'Souza ably documents the prejudice against Asian Americans in the admission policies of Berkeley, the absurdities of recasting the introductory civilization course at Stanford to purge many Western white male thinkers, the affront to civil liberties in the racial-speech code at the University of Michigan, along with analogous flaps at Howard, Duke and Harvard. But he rarely transcends his material; the writing is earnest, the details repetitive and the analysis...
...buckyball, taken with the aid of X rays, has been published by Science magazine. The computer-generated drawing matches the perfect soccer-ball shape that had been predicted. "This molecule is just as marvelous as we thought," exclaims Joel Hawkins, who headed the team of University of California, Berkeley, chemists that took the picture...
Blowing it by the board of directors is usually pretty easy. Often enough, bosses who get big raises return the favor by handing out higher fees and benefits to the board. Says Graef Crystal, a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley: "Wherever you find highly paid CEOs, you'll find highly paid directors. It's no accident." At Coca- Cola, CEO Roberto Goizueta earned $10.6 million in salary and stock in 1989, more than three times the average for CEOs of the 200 largest U.S. firms (his 1990 compensation: $11.2 million). His board...
Unfortunately, recent evidence shows that these incentives generally don't work. Laudable in theory, their effect in practice is just the opposite of what's intended. Berkeley's Crystal, a top compensation consultant, has done a complex computer analysis of these stock grants. In 1989 the average annual return on investment at 38 large companies offering all three types of stock awards (including Bristol-Myers, Sara Lee, Unisys and Allied Signal) was 11.3%. But at 215 companies that offered only two kinds of treats (including Morgan Stanley and Paramount), the return was 12.7%, and firms offering only one (Disney...