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...privileges and club memberships to a previously undisclosed $48 million in benefits due him by 2007. That's on top of the $140 million deferred-income payout announced two weeks earlier, which had been building up for three decades and finally was disclosed at the time of Grasso's contract extension...
...largest share of a company that dominates British pay television; your subscription base has nearly doubled over the past four years; and you've just announced stellar earnings. How do you treat your chief executive: a) Extend his contract or b) show him the door? If you're Rupert Murdoch, the answer just might be B. Murdoch seemed at his restless best last week as headlines announced that BSkyB's Tony Ball, who has led the company since 1999, may be on his way out. On his way in, according to unnamed sources in all the papers, is Murdoch...
...understand that I am writing for believability. All my stories start [metaphorically] with the words "Believe me." Real theater is the closest you can get to providing the audience with a real experience. ... You sit there and watch real people doing real things. ... So all my work, beginning with "Contract" was meant to [evoke] live theater...
...comics industry awards named in his honor. Creator of the groundbreaking "The Spirit," a comic supplement that appeared in newspapers from 1939 to 1952, Eisner went on to a 25-year career as a pioneer in the field of comics as educational material. Later, in 1978, his book "A Contract with God" appeared, published by a small press. Twenty-five years after this first-ever "graphic novel," Eisner's latest book, "Fagin the Jew" (128 pp.; $15.95), has just been published by Doubleday, an imprint of the very mainstream book publisher Random House...
...showed that the court agrees that we upheld, or followed, our own rules,” said Wrinn. “The court agreed that we had followed the contract we had with Professor Berkowitz...