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...Feinberg had the seven firms disclose what the executives in question earned in the past two years. He then collected data on top executives' salaries in the auto and financial industries. None of those at the bailed-out firms, in Feinberg's view, should receive more than the average pay for that position in their industry. Then he got feedback from within the firms on how well each individual...
...there has been tension. Feinberg asked all the firms to report how much stock each of their executives held, a point that a number of execs said might call into question their loyalty to their firm. AIG and a number of its top earners refused to give back past bonuses or rewrite contracts that guarantee multimillion-dollar bonuses at the insurer next year. And a number of companies insisted that his plan would hurt their ability to attract and retain talent...
...spam comprises the vast majority of e-mail messages sent - 78% of the 210 billion e-mails sent each day, according to one estimate. And 93 billion of these manage to get past the technical defenses like spam filters and blacklists. E-mail programs have gotten smarter, but spammers stay one step ahead, using disposable e-mail addresses and sending messages from farms of different computers around the world to avoid being blocked. The garbled text spammers load their messages with to get past e-mail filters sometimes approaches poetry: sites like spampoetry.org chronicle lines like "Confirm you won fund...
...criminal is just a criminal and Mr. Polanski is a criminal. The artist is not above the law, moral standards and common decency. The golden myth of the artist hounded by a bigoted society should be a thing of the past. Feminism and republican ideals seem to be dying in France. Olivier Comte, NEUILLY-SUR-SEINE, FRANCE...
...recent afternoon at the Shanghai Tianma Circuit race-car track, the 1,000-strong crowd was treated to the sight of one of the competitors - still dressed in his driver's jumpsuit - walking slowly past the officials' stand, one arm held aloft with the middle finger of his hand extended. "My only regret," he later wrote on his blog, "is that I couldn't show both fingers at the same time because I happened to be having a phone conversation...