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...little room for maneuver: the payout was written into a U.S. contract agreed to last July by two Vivendi directors, Marc Viénot and Edgar Bronfman Jr., to persuade Messier to depart quickly and quietly. The full board rejected the contract days later, after Messier had quit. The arbitration ruling highlights a fundamental difference between U.S. and European corporate practice: in France and some other European nations, a company board is required to act collectively...
...reprisals they sometimes bring down on pre-existing Christian churches and nonevangelistic aid groups. Says Lamin Sanneh, a Muslim convert to Catholicism who teaches the history of world Christianity at Yale: "They come in, don't report to the local churches, stir up a hornet's nest and then quit town when the going gets tough. Why start a controversy if you're not there to face the brunt of it?" Seiple notes that after Curry's and Mercer's arrest in Afghanistan, "all of the other Christian organizations were expelled until the Taliban fell...
Embracing adulthood also meant ditching the supervision of her parents. Mathew Knowles famously quit his job as a medical-equipment salesman in 1995 to manage the teen Destiny's Child, and Tina Knowles, a former hairstylist, designed the group's look. Both still work full time on their daughter's career, and during the two weeks a year when she's not traveling or touring, Beyonce lives in her parents' Houston home. To make Dangerously in Love, however, she left the nest and took up residence for several months in a Miami hotel. "The last Destiny's Child album...
...allow recovery and assessment of whale populations, but was never airtight: Norway filed a timely objection and, under IWC rules, continues its whale hunts. Japan conducts "scientific" catches - also permitted under the rules - but some of the meat has turned up in markets. Iceland went so far as to quit the IWC in 1992, protesting the moratorium. It rejoined last October - a move that Italy, Mexico and New Zealand, citing proce- dural flaws, still reject...
...only the British insiders who're spilling the beans. A star witness at the British inquiry was a certain Andrew Wilkie, who quit his job as a senior Australian intelligence official, privy to U.S. intelligence briefings, in protest against what he saw as a deliberate distortion of WMD evidence to support "ridiculous", "preposterous" and "fundamentally flawed" claims made to justify the invasion. And Wilkie's testimony has prompted other Australian officials to come forward and trash the "garbage" intelligence that helped make the case...