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...another legal battle seems likely to be brewing over the new SEC Commissioner's interest in pushing to allow shareholders to nominate independent members to corporate boards. "They will accept all kinds of stimulus funds and bailouts but God forbid we should ask for any kind of accountability in return," says Nell Minow, co-founder of Corporate Library, a corporate governance research firm...
...verification committee, decide the issue in the coming days. It's not yet clear if Zelaya - who remains holed up in the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa since sneaking back into the country from exile last month - has the votes. His own Liberal Party, in fact, is split over his return. But getting Micheletti to concede even the possibility of Zelaya's reinstatement, which Micheletti and his conservative Republican backers in the U.S. Congress had fanatically opposed from the outset, seems a coup in itself. In the end, both sides agreed on the need "to root the decision [on Zelaya...
Minow—who said the Law School will likely appoint between two and 8 positions—downplayed the likelihood that tension over faculty appointments will return and said that the methodological battles of the 80s are a thing of the past...
...think empowerment is something easier captured in photography than anything else.” She gives an example of one of the photographs shown at the Sackler: the women, pictured smiling and clapping ebulliently, are in the act of reciting an oath, promising to return the money loaned to them...
...Greek soldier, Pheidippides, who ran the 25 miles to Athens from the town of Marathon to announce a battleground victory over the Persians. "Greetings, we win!" he shouted - and then fell to the ground, dead. It would be more than 2,000 years before the marathon would make its return, at the revival of the modern Olympic Games in Greece in 1896. In that event, 17 runners ran 40 km, or 24.8 miles, with Greek runner Spyridon Louis taking the gold medal with a time of 2 hr. 58 min. 50 sec. Inspired by the event's success, Boston inaugurated...