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...corporate jet, worth some $2.5 million; it was discovered by investors only after the perks were disclosed during his divorce proceedings. "Essentially, CEOs talk to their compensation consultants and say, 'What is it that would get me in the cross hairs of my shareholders?' They then avoid that and come up with another way to get a big raise," says Sarah Teslik, executive director of the Council of Institutional Investors...
...cause permanent blindness. The only safe way to look at the transit is through No. 14 welder's glasses or a Mylar filter certified for sun observation (some manufacturers have made such filters into goggles). If you aren't absolutely sure that's what you've got, you can avoid frying your retinas by making a pinhole projector, right, and watching indirectly...
...owns just one Morrissey album. That would make as much sense as having one Grateful Dead tape or a single Proust volume. Either you've got them all or you go out of your way to avoid socializing with people who do. The issue, of course, isn't with the art but with the cult. In Morrissey's case, his acolytes long ago beatified him as the fragile saint of adolescent misery. "A lot of my fans have this perennial mental image of me being anemic and falling helplessly down the stairs," says Morrissey. "I'm not actually like that...
...AVOID OFF-SHORING Have you received spam from Costa Rican off-track-betting facilities offering juicy rebates? Ignore it. These shops aren't regulated and can easily take you for a ride. "A novice should have his head examined if he bets with one of these places," says Richard Bomze, president of the New York Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association...
...appetite for the Mob. We've heard those murky wiretap recordings, seen the grainy surveillance photos, obsessively watched The Godfather and The Sopranos. But we want to know more, whether it's about the prep work for plunging an ice pick into someone's neck (tape the handle to avoid fingerprints) or the supplies needed for going to war with another crime family (bring big pots for marinara sauce to feed everyone at the safe house). Now two breezy new gangland guides, Donnie Brasco's The Way of the Wiseguy (Running Press; 224 pages) and Henry Hill's forthcoming Gangsters...