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...total number of proposals submitted by shareholders hit an all-time high “in the wake of Enron and the other scandals,” says Patrick McGurn, executive vice president and special counsel at Institutional Shareholder Services...
...course, Sunday's touching election-everyone in politics and the press is required to pause and praise the Selmaesque bravery of Iraqis going to the polls-helped lift Bush's rhetoric. Imagine if Sunday had been raw carnage and Bush's new head speechwriter, Bill McGurn from The Wall Street Journal, was left trying to do a Gettysburg-style elegy, making sense from the blood spilled and rallying Americans to go on? But it wasn't just the post-election glee that animated Bush. It's who he is now. The push for freedom was compelling, riveting. And when Bush...
...million out of pocket, equal to 20% of their net worth, not counting their homes and pensions. Insurers will pay an additional $36 million. Enron directors recently cut a deal that has them digging too. "If directors want to play cheerleader, there's a price to pay," warns Patrick McGurn, special counsel to Institutional Shareholder Services...
Likewise, throughout the 1990s American soldiers and civilians were murdered overseas without any real consequences for the killers. Then 3,000 people were massacred on our own soil. As William McGurn has written in National Review, “If we have learned anything since September 11, it is that all Americans become vulnerable when we send the signal that others can molest our citizens abroad without repercussions...
...acquire Compaq, several institutional shareholders voted for the deal because of a recommendation by Institutional Shareholder Services, a proxy advisory firm that blessed the merger; it gave its approval partly on the assumption that "key managers from each company will assume important posts after the merger." Explains Patrick McGurn, general counsel for ISS: "We were left with the impression that we were getting two leaders for the price of one. There was never a time when Capellas said to us that he was hedging his bets...