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...DIED. SIR RICHARD MAY, 65, British judge who presided over former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's war-crimes tribunal; in Oxford, England. The low-key but occasionally prickly barrister resigned in February due to grave health, and after two years of courtroom wrangling with the defiant Serbian leader over everything from cell-phone use to the former dictator's efforts to blame the Balkan wars on Western political leaders...
...quixotic act of counter programming, Canadian comics publisher Drawn & Quarterly released Seth's defiantly low-key "Clyde Fans Book One," ($19.95; 156 pp.) Wednesday against the roaring hype of Sony Pictures' movie adaptation "Spider-Man 2." It was a marketing non-starter of epic proportions with "Spider-Man 2" setting an opening day record of over $40M, according to hollywoodreporter.com. Opening day sales figures for "Clyde Fans" were unavailable at press time, but it's safe to say it made less than $1M. Of course if success is measured in terms of humbleness, dignity and art, "Clyde Fans" trounces...
David Kaiser ’69, who advised Alter’s thesis, remembers Alter the college senior as “quite low-key, mid-western, with a great political background having grown up in a very political atmosphere...
...decide to dip into TIPS, you'll find more choices than ever. Even though the $200 billion TIPS market represents a small fraction of all government debt, TIPS have come a long way since their low-key 1997 rollout. The Treasury is on track this year to issue about $60 billion worth of TIPS, double last year's issuance, as part of an effort to diversify liability and attract new investors. In July the Treasury will auction new 20year TIPS and in October will follow up with a five-year note. You can buy TIPS from the Treasury directly...
Fourtou's experience may be extreme, but it's emblematic of the baptism by fire that new European CEOs often face these days. Fourtou is practically the anti-Messier. A sturdily built rugby fan from southwestern France, he is as low-key as Messier was flashy. Unlike Messier, whose acquisition spree was propelled by a subsequently discredited vision of the future, Fourtou has taken an approach to Vivendi that is basic. Rather than embracing a grandiose strategy, he started by selling what was easiest to sell while asking shareholders to be patient. After some strategic twisting and turning, he decided...