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Convexity will use a nontraditional compensation structure in which Meyer and his colleagues will only receive their 20 percent performance fee if they surpass one of seven benchmarks chosen by an investor, AFX News reported...
...Week’s events were chosen to foster a sense of community, Pederson said. She said that “Finding Nemo” was selected because “it’s not negative. It has a positive message about growth and ‘following your own path...
...there a middle ground? It's worth noting that the vast majority of Western news outlets (including TIME) have chosen not to republish the cartoons, out of deference to Islamic sensitivities. On other occasions the U.S. media have exercised self-censorship in matters of religion; in 1992, for instance, after Sinead O'Connor outraged Catholics by ripping up a photo of the Pope on Saturday Night Live, NBC reran the show without O'Connor's performance. To Muslims, disrespect for the Prophet is a rallying point beyond worldly politics. And so as anger plays out in Muslim hearts, the challenge...
...commanders and soldiers. We shake your hands. We are all proud of the excellent leadership and the fighting spirit in this great attack…Continue this until victory. As in Deir Yassin, so everywhere, we will attack and smite the enemy. God, God, Thou has chosen us for conquest.” Following his election in 1977 as prime minister, he said: “The Jewish people have unchallengeable, eternal, historic right to the Land of Israel including the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the inheritance of their forefathers.”Alas, perhaps it is the words...
...Peter famously had neither the time nor the inclination. But whether he likes it or not, Peter is about to enter the 21st century, with the publication of Peter Pan in Scarlet, the official sequel to J.M. Barrie's classic Peter Pan. Last March, British author Geraldine McCaughrean was chosen from nearly 200 authors for the delicate task of relaunching Barrie's beloved flight of fantasy. "I hadn't realized it was such a big deal," says McCaughrean. "But I thought, No, I'm damned if I'm going to be daunted. I'll just enjoy myself." Why McCaughrean...