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...watchdog group's goal is to boost shareholder efforts to make firms reveal their political contributions. In the past 18 months, 10 companies, including McDonald's and Morgan Stanley, have begun disclosing donations on their websites and given their boards oversight of the contributions. (Merck, which declined comment, began disclosing contributions last year, but its board doesn't supervise its giving.) Many companies fear alienating groups with competing political interests. Of 40 firms facing shareholder-sponsored disclosure resolutions, only one, the biotech firm Amgen, recommended a yes vote. Its measure passed last week...
...largest tobacco manufacturer. Experience in overseas operations will help Hiroshi Kimura, Japan Tobacco's new CEO. In the face of increasing competition and shrinking demand, the company saw domestic sales drop 2.5% in the last fiscal year. Foreign sales jumped more than 11% last year, to $7.6 billion. Morgan Stanley analyst Taizo Demura forecasts a 15% jump in Japan Tobacco's overseas earnings this year. That's because Kimura, 52, is looking to Russia, Eastern Europe, Asia and other emerging markets, where smokers are more resistant to health warnings...
Luckily for Bush, he can revamp his Cabinet whenever he pleases. But the American electorate--barring an impeachment--unfortunately has to wait four years to be able to replace the occupant of the Oval Office. STANLEY RICHARD OLIVAR Vista, Calif...
...Smith tried to replicate the 1987 findings in a 2000 study, he got a more modest success rate on academic measures and virtually no gains in social behavior. Others, meanwhile, have devised new ways of working with autistic kids. One of the best known was developed by child psychiatrist Stanley Greenspan, who spent 15 years studying infant development at the National Institute of Mental Health. His method, called DIR (developmental, individual-difference, relationship based), has as its premise the idea that an exchange of emotional signals, initially between mother and infant, form the basis for learning in childhood. Greenspan trains...
...preventable tragedy occurred 28 years ago, in Jonestown, Guyana. Some 900 members of Jim Jones? People?s Temple - souls cleansed, brains washed - took poison and died at his command. Stanley Nelson?s documentary Jonestown: The Life and Death of People?s Temple interviews survivors and kin of the dead, and has a trove of footage to illuminate, if not explain, the seductive, destructive power of the Temple prophet...