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...quite according to plan. You could say that Halliburton, which holds an exclusive deal to support U.S. soldiers and by far the largest share of contracts for rebuilding Iraq's crippled infrastructure, is command central in the battle to rebuild the country. But the firm has become a lightning rod for criticism of the U.S. presence in Iraq. Thanks in part to Vice President Dick Cheney's five-year tenure as the company's CEO, Halliburton's contract with the U.S. government has been unable to escape the whiff of cronyism--even though Cheney says he has no connection...
...experts point out that CEOs are like free agents in sports, and that you can't fault them for taking big packages (within legal boundaries) any more than you can wonder why A-Rod cashes his paychecks. Over the years a few companies have put CEO pay caps in place, but many have either abandoned or raised them in the face of competition. Socially progressive Ben & Jerry's, which for a decade capped executive pay at seven times the salary of the lowest-paid worker, dropped the provision in 1994 when it sought a CEO to replace co-founder...
...promise of Brown was not fulfilled in the way that we envisioned it," says U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige, who was a student at Mississippi's all-black Jackson State University when the decision was handed down. Within the first few years after the decision, paratroopers were protecting black students entering Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., schools were shuttered entirely in Prince Edward County, Va., and white families across the South put their children into private schools. By 1971, the court had endorsed busing to overcome the residential segregation that was keeping black and white children apart...
...Rod Paige used the Forum to argue that U.S. public education—long criticized for the “achievement gap” it has perpetuated—is on the road to remediation. Paige’s talk kicked off a conference this weekend commemorating Brown’s fiftieth anniversary at the Kennedy School of Government...
...while the Sox are missing Nomar and the Bronx Bombers are still waiting for A-Rod to wake up, Harvard seems to have finally rounded out its lineup...