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Disgruntled shareholders have been taking a tougher and more vocal stand against company directors in 2009 over issues ranging from frothy executive pay packages to company stock performance, according to a new study. And experts believe this trend could fuel efforts by Congress and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to bring in changes to corporate-governance rules...
...factors to consider. The first factor is the damned Cambridge weather. Chances are very good that the game will be wicked cold; whatever your widget tells you the temperature will be, dress for ten degrees colder. You will be remaining relatively still for a few hours, and the concrete stands that your posterior will be resting on during the game start to feel quite icy. The key is dressing in layers, making sure your cranium is covered, and wearing a good pair of gloves. The second thing to keep in mind is that you must have some type of Harvard...
Journalists often stand accused of neglecting good news in favor of bad. And on Monday evening, some of the most eminent names in British journalism seemed frankly perplexed at how to handle a piece of good news: namely, that their employer, the Observer, had been saved from the chop. They had called a meeting in London to plot a campaign to rescue the world's oldest Sunday newspaper. Despite news of the paper's reprieve, they assembled anyway. As the room filled to capacity and then filled beyond capacity, one Observer writer wondered aloud at the size of the turnout...
...that varsity athletes, international students, lab assistants, and thesis writers constituted the "elect" who were to receive highly coveted J-Term campus housing this coming January, when most Harvard students wishing to come back to Cambridge will just have to stay at home and see how long they can stand trying to remember high school inside jokes...
...percentage points could change the picture entirely. But Germans don't even know how many politicians will get elected, since the Bundestag is one of the few parliaments in the world where the number of seats can shift with each election. (Read "Germany's Election: Divided They Stand...