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...status quo would be acceptable, though still unattractive, if cheating were a victimless crime. But most large science classes—incidentally the places where copying on problem sets is most apt to occur—are graded on a curve. This creates a zero-sum situation, where any points people gain by cheating do not simply help them, but hurt others...
...employees’ compensation includes a base salary, a lump sum for meeting their benchmarks and a performance bonus for exceeding them over a five-year period...
...went to WorldCom partly because "there's appeal to being a CEO," was not offered incentives to stick around at HP. In December 2001, Compaq's board amended his severance package so that if he resigned from the merged firm within a year, he would receive a lump-sum payment--worth a previously agreed-to $14 million--within 10 days of his departure. When he left, he also received $1.6 million as part of a loan-forgiveness plan. After the merger, his employment contract was not renegotiated to entice him to stay...
...DIED. JUAN SCHIAFFINO, 77, Uruguayan soccer legend who helped steer his country to a momentous 1950 World Cup final victory against favorites Brazil; in Montevideo. After his World Cup triumph, Schiaffino was poached by Italian club AC Milan for what was then a princely sum...
...text of the resolution. Inspectors will be able to go anywhere and talk to anyone they want—in the safety of a foreign country if necessary. Iraq can’t so much as tell a lie without breaking the letter of the resolution. In sum, it prescribes precisely the kind of inspections regime Saddam cannot allow to occur...