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...global capital markets to fund this shopping spree left the banks vulnerable to the whims of investors. By early 2008, the combination of a risk-averse global financial climate and possible speculative attacks on the krona meant that Iceland could no longer run itself like a hedge fund. Says Paul Rawkins, an analyst at Fitch Ratings: "The global credit crunch undermined their business model...
...chairmen, at companies like Pfizer, Citigroup, Verizon, General Electric, Coca-Cola and Time Warner (parent company of TIME). So far those votes have only garnered an average 32% support, though some annual meetings remain. "Many of the problems surrounding poor governance stem from management accruing too much power," says Paul Hodgson, senior research associate at The Corporate Library, a governance and compensation research firm. "If you split the roles of CEO and chairman, you get this balance of power in the boardroom. A strong chairman can stand...
...Over the last four years, Warren has "beta-tested" his plan by sending almost 8,000 members of his own 22,000-member Saddleback Church congregation, and an undetermined number from 12 other congregations, to work in 68 nations. The flagship project has been in Rwanda, whose President, Paul Kagame, has declared his intention to make his country the world's first "Purpose-Driven Nation...
...will be a crisis manager, not a crisis resolver," says Paul Salem, director of the Carnegie Endowment's Middle East Center in Beirut. Prior to his election as President, Suleiman was commander of the Lebanese army, an appointment he was accorded in 1998 under the auspices of Syria, which then dominated Lebanon. Since Syria disengaged from Lebanon in April 2005 following mass street protests, Suleiman has steered an even course amid feuding Lebanese factions. His priority has been to preserve the integrity of the Lebanese army, widely regarded as almost the only functioning state institution. Suleiman's profile rose considerably...
...recognize gay marriage, gave gay Californians the same protections that have traditionally been used to block discrimination based on gender, race or religion. And in that way, it goes far beyond the issue of marriage. An amendment in the fall won't change that, says Andrew Koppelman, the John Paul Stevens Professor of Law at Northwestern University. In anchoring its ruling on sweeping new equal rights protections for gays, the court opted for boldness. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times published Sunday, Chief Justice Ronald M. George, a moderate Republican, said he came to see the struggle...