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...N.Y.S.E. governance requirements, with a focus on transparency. So pressure has built for the Big Board to follow the same standards as its members. "It was Dick who said earlier this year, 'Look, times have changed,'" says N.Y.S.E. spokesman Robert Zito. By disclosing Grasso's pay while extending his contract through 2007, the N.Y.S.E. board ate its own cooking without appearing to criticize the man who has led the exchange through boom, bust, national disaster and scandal. "We wanted to announce to the world a vote of confidence for Dick," said Laurence Fink, CEO of the investment firm BlackRock...
...once a band teetering toward failure. It was the late '90s, and Spoon was playing competent post-punk in the tradition of Wire and the Pixies. And in the post-punk tradition, the group was widely ignored. After a two-month affiliation with a major label, Spoon had its contract revoked. The band was deemed not only hopelessly uncommercial but also hopelessly uninteresting...
...building of a fifth nuclear reactor (FIN5), with the capacity to produce up to 1,600 MW, at a cost of $2.5 billion. But even if Finland needs more nukes, why Russian technology? After all, the Franco-German Framatome ANP and General Electric are also bidding for the contract. To make its case, ASE has adopted an American-style lobbying and public-relations campaign, a rarity in Finland. It has established a company called Oivavoima Oy (Excellent Power), with offices on Pohjoisesplanadi, an elegant tree-lined boulevard in Helsinki. From here it hopes to conquer all of Western Europe. Emphasizing...
...that last bit is a fib, concocted for Ball's press biography by publicists for RKO, the studio she was under contract to in the late 1930s. They made it up because they--and the rest of Hollywood, for some two decades--had no idea how to best promote or cast the woman who in mid-life would become perhaps the most popular actress of the 20th century. Ball didn't easily fit any of the standard movie-star niches. The saucy girl from Jamestown, N.Y., was pretty (a former model) but not va-va-voom sexy; she was down...
...have always been just friends. Over the years, they have helped each other through tough times and analyzed the drama and dilemmas of their respective romantic relationships. When Greenberg got married in 1998, Gould was in her husband Paul's wedding party and signed their ketubah (the Jewish wedding contract) as Greenberg's witness. Although she admits to seeing Gould somewhat less since she got married, Greenberg knows they will always be close. "We're like a sister and brother," she says. "He's completely integrated into my life. I know I'm part of his family...