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...engineering giant Alstom, into returning a $4.6 million severance payment, and shareholders of Europe's largest drugmaker, London-based GlaxoSmithKline, rejected the $36.5 million payment CEO Jean Pierre Garnier would receive if he lost his job. "Everyone in Europe is being very careful right now," says Dan Konigsburg, a corporate-governance analyst at Standard & Poor's in London. "No one wants to be like Grasso." They will need a big raise for that...
...basement of a German truck driver?s apartment. The art was part of an ornate 1,300-square-foot hall with walls made of amber in Peter the Great's 18th Century palace. It vanished during World War II, sometime after Nazi troops took it from St. Petersburg to Konigsburg (now Kaliningrad, Russia). While the German government claimed the wall panels were destroyed during the1945 Soviet invasion of Konigsburg, Russian officials charged that Bonn had hidden the treasure. While the fate of the rest of the room remains unknown, this small portion apparently was stolen by a German truck driver...
...person I know who went to Harvard was my cousin Irving, who later had a nervous breakdown in which he put on a squirrel costume and tried to climb the Empire State Building, so maybe its not such a hot idea after all. Sincerely, Allen Konigsburg (Woody "Allen...
...from us and our experiences as we can learn from them. Indeed, I challenge every summer school student to try and meet at least one high-schooler. Whether it's in a classroom or out in the Yard, the conversation will be worth-while and the rewards tremendous. Dan Konigsburg...
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, by E.L. Konigsburg, Atheneum...