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Kampusch finally escaped in 2006. She was cleaning Priklopil's car in the driveway of the home when he got a phone call. While he was distracted, she dropped the vacuum cleaner and ran as fast as she could to the home of a neighbor, who then called police. Priklopil...
Fearing regulation, financial firms are eager to prove they can police their own pay policies. At a recent Washington hearing into the causes of the financial crisis, executives from four top banks all cited recently instituted clawback provisions as evidence the firms had reformed the pay practices that many believe...
“There will be some senators who are looking forward to their own elections, and think that they have to stampede with the rest of the panicking herd,” Frankel said. “It’s scapegoating.”
What remains to be seen is whether Harvard will continue to follow in the footsteps of its ancestor from a recently passed era or blaze its own path.
The race between President Mahinda Rajapaksa and his challenger, the former army commander Sarath Fonseka, is unexpectedly close. Rajapaksa won the war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a brutal ethnic separatist group that once controlled much of northern and eastern Sri Lanka. But Fonseka, a hero in...