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...salaries for Ivy League presidents are not the highest in the country. Baylor College of Medicine President Peter G. Traber earned $1,355,212, making him the top earning university president. If the rankings are expanded to include severance and deferred compensation, Lynn University’s Donald E. Ross tops the charts with earnings over $5.7 million in the 2005-2006 year. Some presidents, on the other hand, decline to take any salary at all. Boston College President William P. Leahy has done just that since at least 1996, the earliest year for which data is provided...
...there’s only one ticket in the race,” Willey said. “One is the vice president of the UC right now, and the other is the chair of the [Finance Committee]. It’s almost the equivalent of Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld running...
...free agent signing period gets going this week, the union is sufficiently frightened that the fix could be in again that it is gearing up an investigation. "Any such activity with respect to free agents is clearly improper," says Donald Fehr, the executive director of the Major League Baseball Player's Association. "We expect to look into the situation, and are prepared to take appropriate action to respond to any collusive behavior, and to make sure the rights of free agent players under the Basic [collective bargaining] Agreement are fully protected...
With the grace of aGinsu-knife salesman, Donald Trump mixes advice--"Go with your gut" and "When somebody screws you, screw them back in spades"--with self-aggrandizing outbursts, like declaring that his dealmaking is so superb he "could negotiate peace in the Middle East." He is echoed only somewhat less obnoxiously by his co-writer, Bill Zanker. Thankfully, Trump stops short of listing the powerful women he claims to have slept with. "If I did, this book would sell 10million copies," he says, adding smugly, "maybe it will anyway." Unfortunately, he's probably right...
Life is supposed to get easier with new technology. Donald Norman wishes it were really so. Instead, he says, as devices evolve, people wind up befuddled and annoyed. The culprit: bad design, a longtime target of the Northwestern University professor. In his seminal 1990 book, The Design of Everyday Things, Norman explained why, for example, people so often switch on the wrong burner of an oven range--in a person's mind, a straight row of control knobs doesn't logically map onto a square stove...