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...Ever wonder if corporate executives are paid too much? Look at it this way: from 1993 to 2002, the aggregate compensation of the top five executives in all public companies amounted to an astonishing $250 billion, equivalent to 7.5% of all corporate earnings. Defenders of the status quo say that such bloated pay provides managers--particularly CEOs--with incentives crucial to high performance. Those defenders have not yet read Lucian Bebchuk and Jesse Fried's Pay Without Performance. The authors marshal a formidable arsenal of facts to pick apart the incentives argument, exposing myriad ways in which CEOs have decoupled...
...From a blues song: I went down to the Crimson, but my magazine was gone. I went down to the Crimson, but my magazine was gone. Oh it made me so blue babe, I wonder what went wrong...
...impossible to create effective electronic voting machines. As one may be tempted to wonder, “If I can use an ATM safely, why not an electronic voting machine?” Good question. Because while their track record shows that Diebold and ES&S can’t seem to consistently produce accurate, problem-free electronic voting machines, there are other companies that do. For example, Sequoia Voting Systems, the third largest voting systems company in the country, already employs a system that prints a simultaneous paper ballot with each touch screen vote cast. It is precisely...
...escaped the ravages once associated with the female vote, and in modern America the suggestion that only men should be allowed to vote would be deemed contrary to the spirit of precious freedom and democracy. Perhaps one hundred years from now, citizens will look back on our era and wonder at our hidebound refusal to enfranchise children, just as we now marvel at the outmoded beliefs of men such as Williams...
...wonder that Fallujah is a murderously dangerous city to fight in. Killing has become a daily occurrence in Iraq. Saddam Hussein was a ruthless dictator, but at least he controlled the Iraqi people and the level of violence in the country. What is happening now is worse. The Iraqi people are being butchered and dominated by U.S. occupation forces. Bibhabari Rath Cuttack, India...