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...shame that the Reevaluation Committee is much less likely to perform a real service to undergraduates by improving Harvard/Radcliffe's student representation. This is directly due to Beys' poor judgement regarding its membership...
Although designed to provide executives with a strong incentive to perform well over time, stock options often seem to be used to reward executives who perform poorly. One prominent example is Advanced Micro Devices chairman Walter J. ("Jerry") Sanders. Although his firm's stock price has declined 35% over the past seven years, Sanders has pocketed some $29 million in option profits during the same period. United States Surgical Corp. chairman Leon Hirsch has been awarded 2.8 million shares (current market value: $186 million) since 1991, even though his company's stock has underperformed the Standard & Poor's 500 index...
...WITH A PEN'S STROKE, PRESIdent Lech Walesa set in motion legal machinery that within weeks will transform Poland from a country with virtually no legal limits on abortion to one that possesses (next to Ireland) Europe's strictest laws on terminating pregnancies. Under the new measure, doctors can perform abortions only when there is proof of rape, incest, genetic abnormality in the fetus or an imminent threat to a mother's health. Noncomplying physicians are liable to two-year prison sentences...
Thus, Thomas said, while individual schools did not perform at a level equivalent to that of comparable school systems such as Worcester and Brockton, this may reflect either a particular student group or a difference in curriculum...
Nevertheless, the pollsters are clearly sending a signal about their respect for the Clarkson program, which despite its mediocre production, features one of the most talented teams in the league. Tuomainen, Hugo Belanger and Todd Marchant tallied 15 points combined this past weekend, and they're skilled enough to perform that feat every weekend...