Word: suit
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...interviewed Ronald Reagan once, on an airplane, during the 1980 presidential campaign. I imagined myself an aggressive young reporter in those days, and I had prepared a series of incendiary questions that I have long since forgotten. Reagan was wearing a brown suit; his red foulard was tied in a Windsor knot. His hair swooped dramatically; his cheeks were an odd wax-museum rouge. We shook hands and came out fighting. At least I did. He cocked his head, smiled and flicked me off his sleeve...
...story, but, for the attentive viewer, much visual wit. One shot featured ducks waddling from left to right on the beach for a few minutes; then, suddenly, two ducks seem to change their minds and head back the other way; the rest of the flock, and many more, follow suit. A sweet parable of conformity. But if Kiarostami's movies get any more austere, they'll be wallpaper...
...Grasso suit will probably name former directors who approved Grasso's pay, the most prominent of whom is Ken Langone, Grasso's longtime friend who chaired the compensation committee during the years that Grasso received his biggest compensation deals. Spitzer was in talks with Langone's lawyers late last week in one of those 10 cases the tireless New York attorney general...
Langone has steadfastly defended Grasso's pay, appalling though it might have been by the standards of a not-for-profit institution like the N.Y.S.E. In fact, the basis for Spitzer's suit is a New York not-for-profit law dictating that pay be reasonable for services rendered. From 1999 through 2002, Grasso was paid more than $76 million--more than a third of the exchange's net income in that period. Langone has argued that Grasso was worth every dime, in part for getting the markets running after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Grasso's lawyer has said...
...institute legislation granting registered same-sex partners the same rights as married couples. Adoption, artificial insemination and church weddings were not part of the deal, though by 1999, couples could adopt each other's children. Norway, Sweden and Iceland all enacted similar legislation in 1996, and Finland followed suit six years later. In 2001, Germany enacted a law that allows same-sex couples to register for "life partnerships," but a second act - promising equality on taxes, pensions and child custody - was rejected. Since 1999, France has granted cohabiting couples a form of legal partnership that (after a waiting period) gives...