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CEOs have plundered their companies, received huge payouts for mediocre or bad performance and left shareholders and employees with the mess [ECONOMY, July 29]. CEOs and other executives must not be allowed to write their own compensation and separation packages. Executives must not enrich themselves by making investors and employees poor. WILLIAM KENNETH WOODARD Louisville...
...vacation together, and most of Pinkerton's work, ministering to gay people and AIDS patients, took place in a tolerant zone. "I told myself the same thing I would say to parishioners in the confessional: These [lovers] were put in my life by God, and they enrich my life--and my ministry...
...privatization plan "is a joke" designed to enrich insiders while minority shareholders get the shaft, says Mark Mobius, manager of the Templeton Developing Markets fund, which owns Boto shares. "They basically want to gut the company of its best assets for an unreasonably low price." Stockholders are being offered four cents a share to part with the manufacturing division. Mobius says the offer, at around six times Boto's per-share earnings, should be almost double that considering the company's predicted growth rate. (Boto officials did not return several phone calls, and the Carlyle Group declined to comment...
Experts including Duelfer and Anthony Cordesman, a military analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, believe Saddam has the sophisticated triggers, weapon housings and everything else he needs to build a nuclear device--except for a sufficient supply of weapons-grade enriched uranium. Intelligence indicates that he is angling to obtain some on the international black market, but it's not something that your friendly neighborhood arms smuggler can lay hands on right away. So Saddam also is working to enrich his own uranium. That's a major technological challenge, but Iraq is expected to succeed...
...only institution capable of holding the fractious archipelago together. Over the years, various leaders have dealt with the army differently?but always using the TNI as a means of staying in power. Sukarno, Megawati's father, played it off against the communists and Muslims. Suharto exploited it to enrich his family and cronies. After he fell, in keeping with the more liberal political winds prevailing at the time, civilian authorities tried to rein in the generals...