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...enabling him to function more like an American CEO. Thanks to the change, "we can take strategic decisions faster and with better preparation," he told shareholders in June. Unintentionally, the change also makes him harder to remove. "Deutsche Bank's particular dilemma is that the CEO stands alone," says Ulrich Hocker of the German Shareholder Protection Association, which advocates tougher corporate governance. Whatever the outcome, the case is a blow to Ackermann and can only make his plan for change harder to implement. A sympathetic Frankfurt banker said: "Imagine how distracting it must be to try to talk about serious...
...European Court of Justice in Luxembourg last week ruled that doctors' rest time in hospitals must be counted as work time, for which European law sets a maximum of 48 hours per week. Frank Ulrich Montgomery, head of the union of hospital doctors, said the ruling means another 15,000 doctors must be found to staff the hospitals. Good news for doctors, but the tab may come to €1 billion. "If the hospital's running costs increase, eventually insurance will have to pay additional costs," Montgomery said. Since most Germans are insured through the state, the government could...
...course, it helps that Metallica is one ferocious band. In the five years since their last record, guitarist Kirk Hammett and drummer Lars Ulrich have clearly been listening to lots of System of a Down--loud-soft dynamics are all over St. Anger. But no one in music is better at whipping up hurricanes out of thin air than these two, and even though most songs clock in at well over seven minutes, they never lose tension or focus. St. Anger will absolutely rock your head, though it would have been nice if it wanted a piece of your brain...
...Ulrich says a less conventional monument that the University could use as a model is the Anne Dudley Bradstreet Gate, located along the North border of the Yard near Canaday, which was dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the integration of women into Harvard’s houses. But Bradstreet had no affiliation with the University and, in the future, Ulrich says, Harvard might better look to name gates after women affiliated with the institution...
Another model Ulrich suggests is the “Women’s Table,” a Yale sculpture designed by Maya Lin that celebrates the achievements of women at the university...