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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...
...several months after they met, Obama's parents got married in Maui, according to divorce records. It was a Thursday. At that point, Ann was three months pregnant with Barack Obama II. Friends did not learn of the wedding until afterward. "Nobody was invited," says Abercrombie. The motivations behind the marriage remain a mystery, even to Obama. "I never probed my mother about the details. Did they decide to get married because she was already pregnant? Or did he propose to her in the traditional, formal way?" Obama wonders. "I suppose, had she not passed away, I would have asked...
Harvard-Radcliffe Television (HRTV) will be launching a new video-sharing Web site called “CrimsonClips” this Thursday. The site combines current HRTV productions with videos of campus events and performances uploaded by students. “It’s a YouTube for Harvard that will allow users to rate, share and search for videos,” said HRTV President Michael C. Koenigs ’09. Koenigs said he hopes the new site will “provide an alternative to the over-crowded world of print media at Harvard. We want...
...through downtown Harare, unmolested by riot police, and noisily demanded loyalty to Mugabe. That came after raids by the security services on a hotel room used as an office by M.D.C. and the arrest of two Western journalists accused of working without accreditation (something they are routinely refused) on Thursday night. M.D.C. secretary general Tendai Biti reacted by saying Mugabe had "declared war." At a press conference Saturday, Tsvangirai warned of a gathering "war against the people," adding, "In the run-off, violence will be the weapon." Tsvangirai flew to South Africa late on Sunday for talks...
...Thursday, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker told reporters that the government's initiative in Basra had been a positive development, but also admitted that "gains here [in Iraq] are fragile." He said Maliki was "pretty sober" on his return from Basra, and was "not coming back in any kind of triumphal spirit...