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...targets, which center on things like trading volume and market share. How the exchange measures up against its predetermined targets heavily influences annual bonuses. A typical company will reach its performance targets less than 75% of the time and only rarely blow through them by a wide margin, says Pearl Meyer, an executive compensation consultant. Yet since Grasso took over in 1995, the exchange has far exceeded its targets every year, documents show. That suggests the targets are a lay-up, Meyer says. Frank Ashen, executive vice president of human resources at the exchange, says that's not the case...
...this Islamist group, "the men are magnificent." He professes equal admiration for two others, both acquaintances: Omar Khan Sharif, one of the two British suicide bombers who blew up a crowded Tel Aviv bar last April, and Omar Saeed Sheik, the British citizen accused of murdering journalist Daniel Pearl...
...application. La Prairie also carries a Skin Caviar Luxe Cream ($300 for a 1.7-oz. jar or $550 for 3.4 oz.). Meanwhile, Chicago's Four Seasons hotel is offering a caviar facial treatment at its in-house spa. Guests have their faces smothered in a pricey mixture of caviar, pearl proteins and marine agents, and afterward they sip a little bubbly and nibble on a caviar canape. Book yourself a 30-min. treatment for $65, 50 min. for $110 or go full throttle for 80 min. at $155. --By Alix Strauss
...Steven Brimage of Boston and Wendy Barnett of 36 Pearl St., Cambridge, were arrested for possession and distribution of drugs. They were apprehended at One Central Square by the Cambridge narcotics unit...
...Building the span will cost at least $2 billion, and some still doubt whether it's worth it. Wonder cities on the eastern half of the Pearl River Delta have boomed over the past decade, but Zhuhai and the rest of the west remain relative backwaters. But Professor Tuan Chyau of the Chinese University of Hong Kong says that's exactly the point: the bridge could be the key to transforming the western delta. By cutting travel time between Hong Kong and Zhuhai by 30 minutes, Tuan estimates the bridge could boost the western delta's GDP by more than...