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...take into account significant differences in the way their companies are managed and audited, Europeans say, and would require the adoption of practices that are burdensome and at times at odds with their own national laws. "It's like using a bulldozer to export corporate governance rules," says Marco Becht, executive director of the European Corporate Governance Institute, a Brussels think tank. "In terms of substance and form, it is very problematic...
...make a fetish out of the whole thing. Some people overload on cultural traditions without really knowing what they're about." The trick, the experts say, is to expose kids to their birth culture while keeping in mind that interests may change as the children grow. Andrew James Marco Nelson, 15, and dad Jim went to Peru last year for Andrew's first visit to his birth country. "It was amazing," he says. "I loved the colorful art everywhere, and I liked seeing people on the street who looked like me." Now he is taking Spanish lessons back home...
...Tour win, if easy can be applied to a grueling three-week event that took riders over 3,270 km of rolling valleys and vertiginous mountain peaks. With one-time winner and three-time runner-up Jan Ullrich of Germany sidelined with a knee injury and legendary Italian climber Marco Pantani under drug suspension, Armstrong had only one real challenger - Spanish climber Joseba Beloki of once, who finished 7:17 behind...
...Marco Becht, the executive director of the ECGI, said that the pending lawsuit against Shleifer did not affect the decision to name him a fellow...
...Tour de France cycling race, a three-week event where spectacular pile-ups are as common as spectacular scenery. During Thursday's fifth stage, for example, almost two dozen riders were caught in a massive crash about 20 km from the finish. Eight riders were hurt, including Italy's Marco Pinotti, who was rushed to hospital unconscious, with cuts, abrasions and a broken nose. (He required 11 stitches.) Despite having suffered a broken collarbone in the same incident, Belgian Rik Verbrugghe remounted his bicycle and continued to the finish, although he too later retired from the race. And the next...