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...Bottom Line Like all fads, corporate governance has its zealots, and its tendency to excess. CONRAD BLACK, CEO of Hollinger International, after irate shareholders forced him to accept a $6 million salary cap and reduce his control of the company
Born in 1920, Angell is now one of those senior citizens, old enough to have bumped into a retired Babe Ruth on the street wearing his (Ruth's, that is) signature camel's-hair coat and cap. But in the autobiographical chapter "Early Innings," Angell allows us to glimpse the moment when he, a control-challenged junior-high screwball hurler, gave up his big-league dreams and "took up smoking and irony in self-defense." He must have outgrown the irony too--otherwise how could he describe with such tender eloquence a forgettable player, onetime New York Mets shortstop Tony...
Bible-based investing may be as good for the evangelical soul as it is repugnant to the secular-humanist spirit. But is it good for the wallet? Timothy's Small Cap Value fund has gained about 0.4% annually over the past three years, while its Large/Mid-Cap Value is down an annual average of only about 1%. Those returns place both funds far ahead of the overall market and most funds in their categories...
...itself. In production since February 2001, it puts Jada Pinkett Smith's Niobe--not exactly a central figure in The Matrix Reloaded--front and center. There are two hours' worth of new scenes that pop up between levels, and Pinkett Smith submitted to several months of highly advanced "mo-cap"--a motion-capture technique that turns body movements into digital information--so that you're literally playing...
...boost spending, they lift the markets--they'll even paint your house for you. But Bush is having a hard time convincing others of that. The Senate has already cleaved in two the $726 billion price tag for Bush's plan. Even the normally lockstep House has voted to cap the cut at $550 billion. The public isn't enthusiastic either--only 42% think tax cuts are a good idea--but Bush continues to push headlong into the battle...