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...broader lesson, corporate governance experts say, is that companies are best prodded into behaving differently not by the government but by their owners. "The most powerful force in the marketplace that has a direct interest in keeping pay aligned with performance is shareholders," says Stephen Davis of Yale University's Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance. "Why not use them?" He points to a law passed in 2002 in the U.K. that gives shareholders an up or down vote on executive pay packages. Even though the vote is only advisory, and doesn't bind a board of directors...
...free world. Tough attacks, misinformation and anonymous smears are multiplying as both campaigns surrender some control of the conversation to outside groups and dirty tricksters with deep pockets and technological know-how. Legitimate interest groups, high-powered unions and wealthy individuals plan to spend millions on television advertisements, direct mail and computer-generated phone calls over the coming weeks, almost all of them negative. These efforts will be supplemented by a lot of stuff that is even worse, like the faceless fax blast Cohen received...
Both sides have shown an affinity for such dark arts. For months, the AFL-CIO and its affiliates have been blanketing swing states with direct mail promoting Obama and attacking McCain for his "$520 Italian loafers." A union group called Wake Up Wal-Mart is running ads in swing states condemning McCain's "Bush-style corporate tax breaks," while the liberal group Catholics United has an ad saying McCain does not "defend all human life" because, among other issues, he supported the war in Iraq...
...attendants to take part in the Graduate Student Organization, which acts as an intermediary between departments and students. “It’s about getting representation for graduate students at the local, departmental level,” Brown said. The organismic and evolutionary biology student strongly encouraged direct participation. “Sometimes you feel like the University is an organism for making committees and nothing comes out of it,” Brown said. To counter this, he held pseudo-elections for positions on the GSC Executive Board, GSC Committees, and University committees, ranging from the Harvard...
...direct question? As head of Goldman Sachs you played a very central role in building up and operating within this shadow banking system, including placing a fair amount of housing debt from Fannie...