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...amount. She was also banned from showing any emotion. "He forbade me from crying because he was worried the salt acid could damage his tiles," she says. "When I did cry, as I couldn't help it, he grabbed me on my neck, choked me and he pushed my head under the tap in a basin." Eventually, Kampusch says, Priklopil allowed her into the main part of the house and put her to work, though she didn't specify how. "I was used like his work animal," she says. Obsessive about cleanliness, he punished her when she left fingerprints...
...filmmakers deliberately steered clear of revealing any personal or intimate details of her captivity. "We respected her boundaries," says Patricia Schlesinger, head of the culture and documentary department at NDR. But Kampusch speaks openly about Priklopil, whom she never refers to by name but simply as "the perpetrator" or "the offender." "I forgave him instantly. Had I not forgiven him, I would have been filled with so much hatred and negative feelings that I couldn't have survived it all - that would have left me psychologically and physically damaged," she says. "The offense was the result of a kind...
...Rather than relying on clawbacks, companies should make sure they get their compensation decisions right in the first place," says Hye-Won Choi, who is the head of corporate governance at TIAA-CREF, which manages retirement accounts. "It is much easier not to give awards up front than it is to take them back once paid...
Halfway into Amaker’s third year as head coach, things have started to change for Harvard...
...live and work near the Hamra Hotel compound, where many foreign journalists live and work. On Monday, my main assignments for the day were positively mundane: first, to get a plumber to fix the burst pipe at the office, and then head over to the oil ministry, where Exxon Mobil and Royal Dutch Shell were signing a 20-year deal to develop a supergiant Iraqi oil field. The agreement had been heralded as a cornerstone for the future of an Iraq safe enough for investors to unload tens of billions of dollars, perhaps one that would see Iraq surpass Saudi...