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...report, released this week by proxy-advisory firm Proxy Governance Inc., shows a spike in the number of shareholders casting votes against the election of a company director - even when the director was uncontested. The study found that about 10% of directors who were up for election in the first eight months of 2009 saw at least 20% of the shares either voted against them or withheld. That's up from 5.5% of directors in 2008. The percentage of directors seeing at least 40% of the shares voted against them more than doubled to 2.1% from 1% during the same...
During the meeting, multiple shots were fired in the basement of Kirkland J entryway. One of the shots struck Cosby and resulted in his death. Investigators later found marijuana and approximately $1,000 near Cosby’s body...
...class never got to the section on Indian art, which wasn’t covered on the AP Exam.) I would come to blame artists like Varma for the exaggerated deference I’d witnessed firsthand in India. In a country with such a rich artistic tradition, I found myself asking: What compelled a Keralite to adopt a European vocabulary to produce something meaningful and aesthetically pleasing...
...crossing to Britain has become all but impossible over the years, as British immigration officials have increasingly tightened security, using sniffer dogs and carbon-dioxide detectors in the ports. As a result, thousands of immigrants have found themselves stranded along the French coast, living with little sanitation or clean water...
...have traveled illegally on epic journeys that last weeks and cross several borders. They all have one goal in mind: to sneak aboard container trucks on ferry boats bound for Britain, where they see their best prospects. With no national identity cards in Britain, illegal immigrants for years have found it easier to escape notice there than in France, where police frequently check immigrants' documents in the streets. (Read "Postcard from Calais: Treading Water...