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...Grasso, the lifelong exchange employee with ticker tape in his veins and a trademark shaved head. Highly respected for his leadership and results, he has become tossed about in the battle over corporate governance because of a pay flap that won't go away. The tipping point came last week when the exchange, in a letter responding to inquiries from Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman William Donaldson, detailed a trove of Grasso enrichments--from the requisite car and driver, private-jet privileges and club memberships to a previously undisclosed $48 million in benefits due him by 2007. That...
...Thomas J. Davis—a lifelong friend of Trombly’s who witnessed part of the beating and testified in court last week—said that his faith in public institutions has been shaken...
...Thomas J. Davis—a lifelong friend of Trombly's who witnessed part of the beating and testified in court last week—said that his faith in public institutions has been shaken...
Chagall's lifelong touchstone was Vitebsk, the Russian village where he was born in 1887. His parents were Yiddish-speaking Hasidim, descended from a culture suspicious of imagery but possessing a long tradition of mysticism and of the spiritual ecstasy that courses through his art. In My Life, the lovely but unreliable memoir that he wrote when he was just 35, Chagall recalls how his family used painted canvases to protect the wooden floors of their house. "My sisters," he observes dryly, "thought pictures were made expressly for that purpose...
...Doctors attempted to separate the conjoined Bijani twins to free them from lifelong attachment, and Charles Krauthammer attempted, in his criticism of physician-assisted suicide, to split similarly inseparable moral hairs. The Bijani twins, Krauthammer wrote, "were not seeking self-destruction; they were seeking liberation. And they were trying to undo a form of mutilation imposed on them by nature." If the twins were willing to die rather than continue living attached to each other, that's hardly different from people who prefer death to being trapped in a diseased or dysfunctional body. There are those who do not believe...