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...stocks are down, the fur is up, and as the annual general meetings kick off, the claws are out for corporate "fat cats." Last week 21% of shareholders voted against executive pay packages at British group HBOS, nearly 50% voted no at BAE Systems, and U.K. Trade and Industry Secretary Patricia Hewitt began investigating ways to limit executive compensation. This despite the fact that most European execs earn a pittance compared to their American cousins: Novartis' respected CEO Daniel Vasella took a top spot on Europe's pay charts by earning $14.9 million last year - less than the U.S. average...
...House, Ways and Means Chairman Bill Thomas, embraced much of the White House plan, some in the administration slammed him as "imperious" and "impossible," for not sticking behind Bush's full elimination of the dividend tax. One official called the House plan for a capital gains reduction a "rhetorical kick in the head," that would embolden Democrats to further charge that the breaks mainly benefit the wealthy...
...clad in knee-length trousers, stockings and ruffled collars, and women in elegant Elizabethan dresses, converged on the steps of Memorial Church to kick off the 11th annual Arts First celebration yesterday...
...There’s no doubt there’s a temptation,” he says. “You see these rapt younger faces looking up, and you can get quite a kick out of that, and you can get deluded into thinking somehow you’re really doing something significant when all you’re doing is stroking your...
Caffeine factor: Tea takes longer to kick in than coffee, but suffices...