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...Timothy Smith thinks so, which is why on Thursday, at Goldman's annual meeting, the senior vice president of Walden Asset Management, which owns 65,000 shares of the Wall Street giant, will stand up in front of thousands of fellow shareholders and make the case for being able to vote on the firm's compensation practices. Smith's gambit is just the latest salvo in the ongoing battle over executive pay, but this time there's a crucial difference: the pressure isn't coming just from politicians and populist crusaders, but also from big institutional shareholders like mutual funds...
...That's the key to Stuff White People Like - and the stand-up of Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor and Roseanne Barr, Jeff Foxworthy's Redneck shtick, and Dave Chappelle's comedy, says Leon Rappoport, Kansas State psychology professor emeritus and author of Punchlines: The Case for Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Humor. "Instead of seeing these traits as something to be ashamed of, they're something to be laughed at." And the laughter is cathartic; it gives people a sense of empowerment and competence. "It's like they're mastering knowledge of themselves," he says...
...realistically written; it’s an important message and needed to be said.THC: Okay, now let’s talk about “Julius Caesar,” which just ended production. How did you personally prepare for the role of Brutus? Any particular methods? Did you stand in front of a mirror?JTF: I have worked on Shakespeare before, but this is my first full production. I have done other plays that demanded a similar kind of style and poetic language, such as “The Rivals” and “Playboy...
After the Iowa primary, for example, Hillary Clinton seemed to give President Lyndon B. Johnson, who signed civil rights legislation into law, more credit for progress than Martin Luther King Jr.'s "dream" - a perceived stand-in for Obama's "hope." When that drew negative attention among black voters, Bill Clinton made the rounds defending his wife's statements on more than three syndicated black talk radio programs in one day. "Ironically, the use of black radio by the Clinton campaign has been in giving Bill Clinton airtime to denounce Obama," says Richard Prince, an online media commentator. "During South...
...That is a lot more than most electorates would stand for, but Zimbabweans had little redress. After the 1980 election that ended the white minority regime of Rhodesia and brought him to power, Mugabe created a kind of one-party democracy, in which elections and nominally independent state institutions were dominated by his Zanu-PF party, which beat opponents and rigged ballots, and where the organs of state, particularly the army and police, were loyal to the party rather than the people. Left with no means of redress as their homeland rotted, millions of Zimbabweans simply left the country...