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...decision may be partly a reaction to a wave of public anger over executive excesses in Germany. High management salaries and job cuts have been severely criticized at a time when German companies are earning record profits; there is a widespread sense that workers most often pay the price for the mistakes of senior executives. The outcry is not limited to the unions and leftist parties; even the conservative Christian Democrats are jumping on the bandwagon. A working group of the CDU parliamentary faction has suggested setting strict limits to remunerating executives with stock options, or even banning the practice...
...Lanka. And I fail to understand how a small group of extremists in a corner of one Pakistani province can be the greatest threat to the U.S. Pakistan is not a failing state. Criticism must have proportions and not be propaganda against a country that has paid a high price for being America's friend. Bashy Quraishy, FREDERIKSBERG, DENMARK...
...Unsurprisingly, these stylish eco-warriors do not come cheap. They are exempt from road taxes and the central-London congestion charge, but at a base price of $109,000 for the Roadster and a target price of $240,000 for the Lightning, they may be made for the green among us but certainly not the mean - much cheaper, less-élite models will have to appear before the wider population can jump on the battery-powered bandwagon...
...spiritual - made it easy to convince myself it would never happen, and so I would call up Randy Pausch's Last Lecture on YouTube and watch it with my children, receive the gift he was giving us and reject the idea that it would come at an ultimate price: that Pausch would indeed die one day of pancreatic cancer, as he did this morning...
...experts agree on one point: should Libya definitely halt its oil delivery, Switzerland's supply will not suffer, and the price per gallon will not increase. Hartl says the country has sufficient reserves to last four and a half months - "enough time to find other sources, such as African and central Asian countries." Meanwhile, a hastily arranged Swiss delegation headed by Foreign Affairs Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey was dispatched to Tripoli yesterday to keep the crisis from escalating further. Given the ire in Libya, that might be one of the toughest tests of diplomacy the normally unctuous Swiss have ever...