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...sure, Japanese companies offer executives substantial perks. And Japanese securities laws do not require companies to report details of such compensation. But the available evidence does not point to the hidden trove that the men from Motown suggest...
...stunning archaeological find -- and the best ad yet for cryogenics. Not only did this Late Stone Age mountain climber emerge in remarkably good shape from his icy tomb in the Italian Alps, but his tools and some of his clothing were intact -- a treasure trove scientists will be mining for years...
...WONDERFUL LIFE. Joe Raposo, composer of Sing and much of Sesame Street, left a trove of musicals-in-the-making at his death in 1989. This remake of the Frank Capra-Jimmy Stewart film classic It's a Wonderful Life, at Washington's Arena Stage, is as sweet and gosh-darn inspirational as the original. But Sheldon Harnick's book and, especially, lyrics wobble embarrassingly in tone, and the storytelling transition from screen to stage is much less than magical...
...this seems like an election-eve conversion, it should. The President doesn't really like much about California except its trove of 54 electoral votes, 20% of the total he needs to win a second term. His weird Tex-prep political roots have always put him culturally closer to Barbara Mandrell than to Michelle Pfeiffer. As an Administration official explained, "I don't think Bush has ever had an affinity for the place. He finds the culture rather alien." In his autobiography, Bush mournfully recalled the late 1940s when he worked as a traveling drill-bit salesman in California...
...partner Apollo Investment Fund shelled out $320 million for the studio -- and perhaps more important, its 3,000 half-hours of cartoon programming. Going back to the 1950s, the treasure trove could form the basis of a long-standing Turner dream: a worldwide all-cartoon channel...