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RESIGNED. CARL MCCALL, 67, from the New York Stock Exchange (N.Y.S.E.) board, on which he served as chairman of the compensation committee; eight days after N.Y.S.E. chairman Richard Grasso stepped down following criticism of his excessive $140 million pay package; in New York City. McCall had publicly defended Grasso but was reportedly angered to learn of an additional $48 million due Grasso, despite having signed a new contract extension approving...
...LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY Alexander McCall Smith (Anchor) Precious Ramotswe runs a female detective agency in Botswana with cunning, charm and a how-to manual...
...Dust Won't Settle H. Carl McCall, chairman of the New York Stock Exchange's compensation committee, resigned following criticism of his public support for former NYSE chairman Richard Grasso's $140 million pay package...
...formed over the pay issue. Some on the board insist that all directors were aware of Grasso's pay and agreed to set it so high partly because the exchange is not publicly traded and cannot grant stock options to retain top managers. But exchange director H. Carl McCall, who remains a Grasso supporter, says he and others were unaware of how the numbers added up. He faults the Big Board's human-resources staff for not clarifying the amounts Grasso was accumulating through complicated bonus and pension formulas. "Not everyone on the board understood, in aggregate, the total package...
...translated into 11 more, and a film adaptation is in the works. This unexpected success has only energized the prolific McCall Smith to write yet more, including a series of mysteries set in his hometown of Edinburgh and a satirical look at German academia. The bow-tied, slightly rumpled McCall Smith knows plenty about academics - his day job is teaching medical law at the University of Edinburgh. He's one of those insufferably gifted people who can dabble in this and that and do it all well, as can be seen in the professorially cluttered study in the Victorian flat...