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...board and from the chairmanship of EDS created an instant uproar and raised new uncertainties about the future of the troubled company. Wall Streeters questioned the economic wisdom of GM's paying so much money to jettison an in-house critic. Pundits quipped that Smith had paid a hefty "ransom" to free himself from his adversary?a reference to last week's revelations of Perot's financial support for National Security Council efforts to ransom American hostages held in Lebanon. One of Perot's assistants dubbed the GM payoff "hush-mail." Shareholders, meanwhile, were outraged that GM paid about $60?...
...added, "Given 20/20 hindsight, call it a mistaken tactic if you want to." Carefully trying to be both loyal and politically prudent, Bush also had to worry about his own possible connections to the scandal. "I was not aware of, and I oppose any diversion of funds, any ransom payments or any circumvention of the will of Congress," he said. Yet there are still many questions about his role in monitoring the efforts to supply the contras...
...promotes the enforcement of law and order over investigative work. "It is not a crime to go missing," says Prakash Singh, the former chief of police of Uttar Pradesh, the state in which Noida is located. "But kidnapping is against the penal code." Holding a CEO's son for ransom is a criminal act that the police must pursue. There is no motivation to investigate a case of missing children. This is just one of the issues Singh hopes will change when a sweeping police-reform proposal he pushed through India's Supreme Court last September takes root...
...know what you’re thinking. We pay a king’s ransom to attend Harvard, in part so that we can learn from the most accomplished scholars on Earth. We travel here from across the globe to revel in their magnificence, and, by osmosis, to try to take some of their wisdom with us when we depart to better serve our country and McKinsey...
SANTA FE, N.M. Nancey Chapman made this 22-karat cuff ($14,000) while studying her craft in Guadalajara, Mexico. Available at Queen's Ransom...