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...dust-up began on Jan. 14 when Sylvie Uderzo published an open letter in French daily Le Monde, denouncing her father's decision to cede 60% of the Asterix series' parent company to publishing giant Hachette Livre. That sale was finalized earlier this month by Albert Uderzo and Anne Goscinny, whose father René was co-creator and writer of Asterix from the comic's inception in 1961 until his death in 1977. Since then Uderzo has continued producing the series on his own via the Editions Albert-René publishing company he founded in 1979 - a go-it-alone...
...decision to sell evidently infuriated Sylvie Uderzo, who until recently was the director general of Editions Albert-René, and still owns the remaining 40% stake in it. "Today, I'm rebelling (because) Asterix is my paper brother," began her letter to Le Monde. "[Now] I find myself entering into battle against perhaps Asterix's worst enemies: the men of industry and finance...
...group, which first protested Harvard money manager compensation in 2003, when Harvard Management Company paid its top officials a total of $107.5 million in salaries and bonuses, wrote in a letter to University President Drew G. Faust that “it is unquestionable [that managers] collected hundreds of millions of real dollars for having created value that was, as it turns out, largely fictional...
...response to the alumni letter, University spokesman John Longbrake wrote in an e-mail that senior management compensation “reflects industry standards [and] saves significant money for the university, relative to the costs of external investment management...
...churches, with donations from near and far. The local food pantry is now open Sundays as well as Wednesdays, serving about 150 people. But some leaders say the help is not enough and worry about shortages and increasing hardships, especially evictions. In December, a citizens' group faxed a letter to state and federal leaders that said, "Postville is a community in turmoil, a broken, hurting place ... If Postville was reeling after the raid, recent events have brought the town to its knees. What happens when a place implodes...