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...course, Noe has the toughest job, as both servant of an enigmatic, irascible deity and sitcom father to that feuding brood. Maine treats him irreverently, but if he knocks the patriarch down a peg, it's only so that we can re-encounter the hoary Old Testament icon afresh as a sensual, fallible human being and really appreciate his greatness and his sacrifice. The Preservationist reminds us that being God's servant 24/7 is both the ultimate privilege and a hell of a lot of hard work, and Noe is the hardest-working man in the Bible...
Some companies are adopting more sophisticated formulas that peg CEO compensation to benchmarks other than the stock price in a bid to align pay more closely with performance. During each of the next three years, Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina can accrue up to 150% of a nearly $2 million cash award if she meets certain criteria for operating cash flow. But she will collect the full amount only if at the end of the three years HP stock has outperformed at least half the companies in the S&P 500. IBM is now granting its top 300 senior executives...
...abruptly sweeps Jack off to the drunken vortex of the Manhattan art world. Jack in turn persuades her to follow him south, first to Havana, then to squalid Port Mungo, on the coast of Honduras. Shabby sex and heavy drinking become the leitmotivs of their lives. Their elder daughter Peg grows up wild and uncombed...
From the first pages we know that Peg's mysterious death will be the linchpin of Port Mungo, a tragedy with layers to be peeled back slowly. The last third of the book is an emotional plunge into a place that the temperate, fastidious Gin is in no way equipped to comprehend. "There are no mysteries," she tries insisting, "only people who conceal, only secrets." In fact, there is no end of mysteries. In his shimmering way, McGrath pulls back the curtain on a terrible one and says, "Look." When he brings you to that place so adroitly...
...partner of seven years, Peg Preble, through a mutual friend at a Boston University theater performance...