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...didn't really think it would. Many years before, when CEOs were beginning to make serious money from incentive bonuses tied to profits or stock prices, I'd suggested that in bad years the CEO should pay the corporation on the same sliding scale. I called it a disincentive negabonus. Didn't happen...
...expect her well-reviewed turn as Hamlet's mom to herald a full-scale return to film for the still winsome 56-year-old. "I'm not really a suitable person to be an actress," she insists. "I can't bear attention. But I've no qualifications to be anything else." Christie says she's innumerate, has spatial dyslexia and memory problems, so careers she'd prefer, like biology, are out of the question...
...right,” he says, “You should do two things—direct and go to graduate school.” Many Harvard students have already started on similar paths in the pattern of Hughes’s map, directing full-scale productions with the HRDC. The road to achieving student directorial premieres is a rather well-paved one at Harvard. A would-be student director typically selects a script, finds a staff and producer, and then applies to the HRDC board. Once the application is approved, the director chosen serves as the creative head...
...ordeal over: Powerful aftershocks continue, while the lack of relief aid is putting more lives at risk. Foreign assistance is being rushed into the Himalayas by helicopters and pack mules, but the scale of the catastrophe is overwhelming. According to the UN, nearly half a million people are still in need of food, medical help and tents. Their need is all the more urgent as icy winter storms bear down on homeless victims. "There is very little time left," says James Morris, executive director of the World Food Program. Meanwhile, the UN has launched another appeal for emergency earthquake funds...
...show was the first wide-scale production of the Lewis Albert Corporation, which is not affiliated with the College...