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Indecent Proposal Add this to the already bloated annals of fat-cat pay: a U.S. arbitration panel last week upheld a $23.6 million severance payout for Jean-Marie Messier, the ousted CEO of Vivendi Universal. Jean-René Fourtou, Messier's successor, described the payout as "indecent" and promised to contest the decision. He has little room for maneuver: the payout was written into a U.S. contract agreed to last July by two Vivendi directors, Marc Viénot and Edgar Bronfman Jr., to persuade Messier to depart quickly and quietly. The full board rejected the contract days later, after...
Gina watched the friendship unfold, watched a stuffed owl and a toy ginger cat arrive in the mail as gifts. "I couldn't believe it when the first e-mail arrived, but what I really couldn't believe was that they kept it up," she says. "This wasn't a once or twice 'I heard a little girl was sick, and I sent a get-well note.' To me it was a relationship. I don't know what Jo was thinking, but she was taking time out of a very, very busy schedule to write precious e-mails to Catie...
EarthLink took notice and began a year-long cat-and-mouse game to discover Carmack's true identity. "My name's not on anything," he boasted at one point, according to investigators, when they reached him on his uncle's cell phone. "You'll never catch me." Fingered by his upstairs neighbor and a former employer, Carmack went to ground. A private detective was hired to stake out his mother's house. Carmack was finally caught running from his car to the front door and was served with a complaint. Now out on bail, he has been found liable...
...Frantic, which has Hetfield growling over a classic, violent speed-metal riff, "If I could have my wasted days back/Would I use them to get back on track?" But that's pretty much it for the introspection. The rest of the album has Hetfield wailing like an extremely aggravated Cat in the Hat. On Invisible Kid he moans, "Invisible kid/Locked away in his brain/From the shame and the pain/World down the drain" while the title track relies on the horrendous would-be couplet "St. Anger around my neck/He never gets any respect...
...cover photo of President Franklin Roosevelt project an image that Democrats today should emulate? "With the fat-cat aura generated by his pince-nez and cigarette holder as he rode down the street in his fancy car, the rakishly grinning F.D.R. cut perhaps the least Democratic profile I've ever seen," wrote a Massachusetts reader. Others, perhaps a bit defensive about the the current slate of Democratic candidates, wanted to turn the tables. "I look forward to a future issue of TIME examining 'Why They Don't Make Republicans Like They Used To,'" wrote a New Yorker. "The cover should...