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...fellow board members have been increasingly eager to point out that Fiorina is not riding roughshod over them. "It's unfair to say this is Carly's deal," says Bob Knowling, a former CEO of Covad. "Compaq just makes a tremendous amount of sense. Two plus two can equal five...
PICKING HEIRLOOMS OUT OF A HAT Each heir chooses one item that holds equal value for everyone in the group to put in the "pot." If there are three heirs, for instance, there will be a total of three items. A group of heirlooms might include Mom's old chifforobe, Dad's tools and an old photo album--as long as the heirs agree that they would be satisfied with whichever item they end up with. The item is written on a slip of paper and tossed into a hat. Each person then chooses a slip of paper, "winning...
DRAWING LOTS Heirs gather items of relatively equal value--for example, all items in the home with an appraised value of $800 to $1,000. Then each heir draws a number out of a hat. The person drawing No. 1 gets first pick. Each heir in turn chooses something from the group. After the first round of picks, the routine starts again, with the person who drew No. 2 picking first, and so on. The total number of items has to be divisible by the number of heirs--for instance, if there are three heirs, the number of heirlooms should...
...real prospect that as many as 10 of them will join the European Union in 2004 was what spurred the organization to take on the task of reforming its institutions lest they freeze up when the newcomers arrive. Yet many of the candidates feel they have less than "equal status...
Hentoff: Oh. I wasn’t interested in that. You either have equal protection of speech on college campuses or it’s hampered by stupid speech codes. Once I was interviewing Justice Brennan and I asked him one of those stupid questions, you know: “What is your favorite part of the Bill of Rights?” And he said...