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...plea to his housemates over the Cabot open-list, Cremarosa collected over 260 signatures through his online initiative. But after learning that the chances of success were still “slim,” he has now decided to rededicate his efforts towards gaining the support of high-level members of the College’s administration in the hopes that they will wield greater influence over those in a position to rule on his case...
...when Ursula Burns was executive assistant to Xerox's then CEO, Paul Allaire, she sat in on a high-level meeting about changing an employee-benefits policy and after a while raised her hand. "I don't get it," she remembers saying, "but from what I could get, I don't like it." The reaction to her unsolicited feedback--the executives realized they needed to stop using corporatespeak if they wanted employees to embrace the new policy--had a profound effect on Burns, who recalls thinking, Hey, I didn't get slapped down. Speaking up has helped Burns, who grew...
...stood behind the thin excuse that the tanker did not belong to the company. "What we didn't know at the beginning was that we had a genuine catastrophe on our hands," said Thierry Desmarest, Total's chief executive, later. To re-establish credibility, Desmarest put in place a high-level team charged with devising new standards of behavior and ensuring they are implemented. Cordier, 56, was appointed ethics czar and set up an ethics committee in 2001. He reports directly to Desmarest, and his committee has written a new code of conduct - with provisions that ban employees from getting...
...PDBs, the 9/11 commission should demand full disclosure from the White House. If the administration refuses to be more forthcoming, the panel should make use of its subpoena powers, which it has already deployed to procure important documents from the Federal Aviation Administration and the Pentagon. The security of high-level intelligence is imperative, but that security is more than sufficiently guaranteed within the auspices of the independent investigative commission. Our leaders must not forget that it is the physical security of the United States that is paramount, and to that end, accountability on the part of the institutions designed...
...REJECTED. Appeal of TRUONG VAN CAM, A.K.A. NAM CAM, 56, convicted mob boss sentenced to death last June for ordering the murder of an adversary and bribing government officials; by the People's Supreme Court in Ho Chi Minh City. The original trial, a rare public acknowledgement of high-level corruption, captivated Vietnam...