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...pretty steamy stuff for the middle of the afternoon." MICHAEL J. COPPS, FCC commissioner, who has led a review of indecency in broadcasting, on a television soap opera he inadvertently stumbled upon while channel surfing...
...designate who likes to travel by motor scooter, the rebels then anointed a new board made up of unemployed executives, retirees, a sociologist and one man under investigation for money laundering (which he denies). Welcome to shareholder activism, French style. Their prize: the company that built and operates the Channel Tunnel, the rail link beneath the English Channel that was hailed upon its 1986 launch as Europe's largest privately funded infrastructure project. When the stock was introduced in 1987 at the equivalent of €5.33 per share, thousands of investors bought stakes in a transport monopoly serving...
...billion loss. The income shortfall has left the company scarcely able to honor payments to creditor banks, much less post profits or pay dividends. Financial aid from the British or French governments is explicitly prohibited in the 1986 treaty founding the project. "Without a doubt, the Channel Tunnel would not have been built if we'd known about these problems," lamented Eurotunnel's now-evicted CEO, Richard Shirrefs, in February. Attacking the debt is the main priority of new chairman, Jacques Maillot, the founder and former chairman (having stepped down under pressure) of travel group Nouvelles Frontières. Maillot...
It’s no coincidence that a society that teaches men to channel their emotions through anger and domination is plagued by crimes of power—date rape, domestic abuse and hate crimes. While male perpetrators often target women, man-on-man violence is more prevalent, accounting for 77 percent of all incidents. According to a United Nations report, men commit acts of violence against other men largely to maintain their own “hegemonic masculinity.” Threatened by other forms of masculinity, males often put down “deviant” males like...
...inane comments of ESPN’s analysts prompted a channel check of NESN. Upon realizing NESN carried the game, too, the room cheered the start of another season with the Rem-Dog. The Red Sox Nation pledge of allegiance commercial went over well...