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...shut down a few years ago. But with the world around him changing, Mubarak is too shrewd a politician not to perceive the dangers in resisting the tide of reform. No one is sure exactly what moved the autocratic Mubarak to permit multiparty presidential elections instead of the rubber-stamp referendums that have given him four six-year terms in office. But after the government arrested liberal party head Ayman Nour last month on charges of fraud, the international reaction was unmistakable: U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice canceled a planned visit to Cairo. If her message was clear...
ADIDAS + GOODYEAR The tire giant did more than just rubber-stamp these Adidas Tuscany shoes. The company used its Eagle F1 tire treads to inspire a new design for the soles of this trendy model...
...adequate discussion” fearing that the deans behind the review “already know what they want to get out of it.” We share Mahan’s concern, and we worry that the new committees will be used to rubber-stamp University Hall’s proposals instead of genuinely discussing the best ways of moving forward. The Review is no fait accompli; treating it as such will allow last spring’s underwhelming report to serve as the underwhelming standard bearer for a Harvard education over the next several decades...
...sense, Spitzer is taking on the whole clubby system that keeps driving CEO pay higher. Boards stacked with cronies too often still rubber-stamp excessively rich packages. In most cases, CEO pay is a question not of what is legal but of what is right. "The nature of CEO compensation is something that deserves additional scrutiny. One of the things that will emerge from the Grasso investigation," he says, "is the failure of compensation committees to fulfill their obligations." The Grasso case involves some of the most high-profile executives on Wall Street--the people who approved his payout...
...even if freed, would be allowed to attend or whether delegates will be able to speak freely. Some delegates were sentenced to long jail terms for criticizing the last convention, which collapsed in 1996. All this fuels the suspicion that the generals merely want the upcoming convention to rubber-stamp a constitution that would preserve their grip on power...