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...engineering giant Alstom, into returning a $4.6 million severance payment, and shareholders of Europe's largest drugmaker, London-based GlaxoSmithKline, rejected the $36.5 million payment CEO Jean Pierre Garnier would receive if he lost his job. "Everyone in Europe is being very careful right now," says Dan Konigsburg, a corporate-governance analyst at Standard & Poor's in London. "No one wants to be like Grasso." They will need a big raise for that...
...peak of impeachment. Rep. Bob Livingston, shortly after being elected to succeed the disgraced (and adulterous) Newt Gingrich, had to step down following the revelations of his own extramarital affair. At about the same time, the indiscretions of no fewer than three Republican House impeachment managers, Bob Barr, Dan Burton, and Henry Hyde, came to light in a document compiled by the sleazy, but hardly hypocritical, Larry Flynt...
...International Relations Committee. And Bennett was recently invited by the Republican Club to speak at Harvard. The party never even considered cutting Arnold loose. It all comes back to a kind of bravado built into the collective psyche of the American right wing, something I like to call the Dan Burton Principle. You may know Dan Burton as a senior Republican Congressman from my state, Indiana. In the 1990s he announced on the floor of the House of Representatives his certainty that Vince Foster was murdered, based on a scientific reenactment which consisted of him firing a pistol into...
...reads i'm like you. His songs are shaped by experience. Friday, the new single, deals with the peril of obsession. In the song, it's a woman. In real life, it was music. At 18, "I was working seven days, 100 hours a week," writing songs. "Everybody said, 'Dan, you're working too hard,'" he recalls. "I was addicted." He quit cold turkey, "picked up a backpack, went on a tour of Europe, saw my family and friends," he says. A year later, he got back to writing, but vows, "I am not doing that again." Bedingfield...
...Crimson Arts columnist Dan Gilmore can be reached at dgilmore@fas.harvard.edu...