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...media mogul plans to create a new system of private schooling that he hopes will produce a smarter generation of American kids -- and make him and his partners a profit as well. He also expects to inspire -- indeed, compel -- the existing public school system to change the way it instills knowledge. "Kids today are disconnected from the education process," says Whittle. "We need to figure out how they are motivated and tap into that." At this point Whittle's enterprise is little more than an ambitious blue-sky notion, yet it is attracting considerable interest and some high-level talent...
...contemplating new rules that would force companies to disclose executive compensation more fully in proxy materials. In addition, it would compel boards to justify in the annual report or proxy statement what a CEO's pay really is -- in all its components -- and why it's reasonable. Companies would be required, for example, to spell out in a new summary table which elements of executive pay are cash and what the present values of stock grants and options are -- something only compensation experts are able to calculate...
Okay, so Aleo's hypnotism may not make you reveal your innermost truths or compel you to "cluck like a chicken." It may not match the excitement of a Scooby-trance...
...Crimson: I noticed that, I also noticed that you added lines, for example when the stable boy tries to compel Miss Julie into saying the word "fucking." I don't remember that in the script, although I could be wrong...
Smaller papers have also been struggling to halt invasion of privacy. At the Wichita Eagle, editor Merritt decided in 1990 to change coverage to compel gubernatorial candidates to speak to the issues and "get off the crap sound- bite kind of campaigns." The paper polled a thousand readers and nonreaders before and after the campaign and concluded that readers had greatly enhanced understanding of issues while nonreaders did not. Says Merritt: "We are convinced that the appetite is out there for the kind of journalism all of us would like to do on campaigns. If a candidate is running around...