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Charles Ardai was born toolate. He's a dotcom success story--founder and CEO of Juno--but his first love was pulp fiction: those seamy, seedy, hard-boiled paperbacks from the 1940s and '50s, the kind with a hot broad and a cold, stiff drink on the cover. Ardai, 36, missed the great age of pulp, so after Juno merged with a competitor in 2001 and he had time and money to burn, he founded his own press, Hard Case Crime. Now he makes 'em like they used...
...There has also been mixed success with legislating clawbacks. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act, passed in 2002 in the wake of accounting scandals at Enron and other companies, required CEOs and CFOs of companies that have to restate earnings because of financial misconduct to pay back bonuses and incentive compensation. But that provision proved largely ineffective. The SEC didn't bring a case under this provision for four years, and when it finally found success - UnitedHealth's former CEO was forced to pay back more than $400 million worth of stock options gains, unexercised options and retirement pay after a stock...
...Congress is coming late to this crisis. Paulson, Bernanke and Geithner--whose conference calls can number more than half a dozen a day--have been quietly trying to keep the ship in the channel for months. Treasury Secretary Paulson, 62, was one of Wall Street's toughest dealmakers as CEO of Goldman Sachs. Fed chief Bernanke, 54, is a quiet academic who was the chairman of Princeton's economics department and is one of the foremost scholars of the Great Depression and other economic catastrophes. Least known of the three is Geithner, 47, whose years at Treasury in the 1990s...
Diagnostics-For-All hired its CEO in June and is currently applying for funding, according to Hayat Sindi, another member of the team and co-founder...
...will also create a CD compiling the students’ best performances of the year. “They’ve provided an opportunity for student musicians to get out and start a music career,” says Anthony M. Spaniola III ‘10, the CEO of Veritas. “A lot of musicians really only get to play on campus. It allows us to broaden our reach out into the community.” Still, as Scotti notes, there are many student musicians WHO are not aware of the opportunities offered by Club Passim...