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Successful companies (those with above-average five-year shareholder returns) are boosting pay for top workers, finds consultancy Towers Perrin. The goody bag includes cash awards, company stock and total compensation packages well above industry norms. Average companies, however, are more likely to be keeping salary increases at a minimum...
...nomination because it flies with the birds--intimately, soaringly, ecstatically--in ways that are utterly without cinematic precedent. As the film's executive producer, Jean de Tregomain, says, "It not only gives you a bird's-eye view, it lets you become a bird." Under the direction of Jacques Perrin, its many crews mounted cameras on helicopters, gliders (some of them remote-controlled), delta-wing planes, even balloons, so they could fly amid the migrating flocks, often eyeball to eyeball with the birds. You see the world beneath as they see it--stunningly spacious, gorgeously hued and sometimes dangerous...
...Meanwhile, writer-reporter Brian Bennett and contributing reporter Andrew Perrin both flew to Kuta, ground zero of the Oct. 12 blasts, to construct the definitive account of that night. Shocked by the devastation they encountered, both sought the only shelter at hand?their work. "At first I was trying to hold it together," says Bennett, "but then after seeing yet another body and another person breaking down, it finally got to me. I had to walk out of interviews shaking my head and taking deep breaths." For Perrin, an Australian, being on the scene where so many of his countrymen...
...appeared opportunistic, including a recent cluster filed on behalf of healthy plaintiffs against companies that have only peripheral connections to asbestos, among them media giant Viacom, baby-products maker Gerber (a subsidiary of Novartis) and Gallo Winery. If the cascade of litigation continues, according to a recent Tillinghast-Towers Perrin study, its financial toll could reach $200 billion, more than the damage attributed to the Enron debacle. "The liability--both projected and actual--is far in excess of Enron," says David Austern, general counsel for the Manville Trust, which was created from bankrupt asbestos maker Johns-Manville...
...Perrin said he hopes the Academy’s recommendations lead to a greater confidence in medicinal treatments for ADHD...