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...like to see Palfrey House a part of the community, with the streets that are a part of the family,” said Palfrey, whose birth name is in fact John Palfrey VI, noting that Hammond (the street to which the house was moved) was his great-great grandmother’s maiden name...
...VI. MEMORY...
...starring in and directing Rampart Scandal, about alleged cop corruption in the Tupac Shakur murder case. He's also defying age and logic by planning a Rocky VI...
...Marie Messier, the ousted CEO of Vivendi Universal. Jean-René Fourtou, Messier's successor, described the payout as "indecent" and promised to contest the decision. He has little room for maneuver: the payout was written into a U.S. contract agreed to last July by two Vivendi directors, Marc Viénot and Edgar Bronfman Jr., to persuade Messier to depart quickly and quietly. The full board rejected the contract days later, after Messier had quit. The arbitration ruling highlights a fundamental difference between U.S. and European corporate practice: in France and some other European nations, a company board...
...directors can make binding decisions. The affair is particularly embarrassing for Viénot, a distinguished banker who authored two reports on French corporate governance in the 1990s. He quit the board last fall and isn't commenting. As Vivendi is finding to its cost, even the best French expert can get things wrong. Hmm ... This may be a bit too fair Britain announced plans to ban age discrimination in the workplace by October 2006. In line with an E.U. directive, it will outlaw mandatory retirement ages, end ageist job advertising, and allow Britons the choice of working until they...