Word: headful
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...There are going to be changes to the boards of every major financial-services firm," says Clarke Murphy, co-head of the board-services practice at executive-search firm Russell Reynolds. "As many as half of their independent members [i.e., directors who are not officers of the bank] may change...
David Bliss, head of consulting firm Oliver Wyman's board-advisory unit, says he has been busy and has received more calls from large financial firms in the past few months. Nonetheless, Bliss says the most troubled banks may have a tough time finding willing and able directors. He says it's harder today to find people to serve on corporate boards, in part because Sarbanes-Oxley has increased the work that board members must do. But Bliss says the biggest thing that keeps people from serving on a bank board is the social risk. "No one wants...
...Would be the first African-American - and the second former astronaut - to head NASA...
...against him - is unlikely to ease the tumult in Westminster or the anger across Britain. A number of MPs face being dropped or disciplined by their own parties; others will no doubt be voted out at the next general election (one is due within a year). Sir Paul Stephenson, head of Scotland Yard, said police may investigate some of the expenses claims. (See pictures of the British police...
Researchers who examined the death certificates and medical records found that 90% of the bullets fired in the killings landed above the waist. 197 were fired into the back, 395 hit the chest area and 229 hit the head. Most shockingly, 152 bullets were fired into the base of the skull, indicative of summary execution. "The intention was not to stop people fleeing, the intention was to kill," says Henrique Carlos Goncalves, the president of the São Paulo Regional Council of Medicine, the body that examined the death certificates. "It was a massacre." (See pictures of a papal...