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While the club is only accepting new members who have ridden a horse before, the faculty advisor, Senior Associate Secretary to the University Elizabeth A. Gray, said less experienced newcomers could make an immediate impact...
...corporate America. With board members of companies from Disney to Enron getting hauled into court to answer for their stewardship, directors are becoming ever more emboldened to give poor- performing CEOs the boot. In fact, 92 CEOs departed in January, the highest number since February 2001, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas, an outplacement firm. "Boards are trying to demonstrate that they are doing their duty," says Warren Batts of the University of Chicago, former CEO and director of several FORTUNE 500 companies...
...weeks, long enough to get back into great paddling shape and for his old skills to click. The next winter he took his wife, a former librarian and amateur painter, and stayed for six weeks again. The next winter they doubled their time, enjoying the waves and the migrating gray whales, and they have been spending three months in Mexico each winter ever since. Sears does not surf when he's at home in Morro Bay, but in Baja he's the chairman of the beach, loving every moment, whether it's talking with the young guys on the sand...
...Even so, brokers - there are 11 brokerages involved in various aspects of the market - are optimistic. The price of a metric ton of CO2 has plunged since the ets scheme began officially on Jan. 1 - to less than ?7 from the informal "gray-market" figure of ?13 at the start of 2004 - but has inched upward again, closing at ?7.23 last Friday. The trading system is designed to limit greenhouse gases to specified targets while minimizing compliance costs - and fining offenders, starting at ?40 per ton in April. So if the price is very low, says Drummond, it could...
TALKIES MAY HAVE made them obsolete, but silent films went out in style, as this 1929 drama from German director E.A. Dupont proves. It's the All About Eve fable, with an exotic youngster (Anna May Wong) replacing an older star (Gilda Gray). Wong, the one Chinese-American movie star in Holly-wood's first half-century, exudes the toxic perfume of sexual danger and makes every woman around her (including Gray, the ostensible star) look frowsy. Like Wong, this terrific movie still has heat and a hard luster...