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...than $300 million in total compensation in the past three years. He amassed an impressive collection of toys: three Harley-Davidson motorcycles; a 130-ft. classic 1930s sailing yacht; a private plane; lavish homes in New York City, coastal New Hampshire, Nantucket and Boca Raton, Fla.; and a small stake in the New Jersey Devils and the New Jersey Nets. Most important, in the past decade, he paid more than $60 billion for 200 major corporate acquisitions and hundreds of smaller ones--a frenzied shopping spree that helped turn Tyco, once a sleepy, industrial-parts manufacturer with $3 billion...
Bronfenbrenner says collective bargaining laws only allow certain parties to have a say in decision-making—and workers are the parties with interests at stake...
...next night Harvard managed to stake itself to a 30-20 lead at Princeton thanks to Harvey’s 17 first-half points. But a burst of energy and good shooting from the Tigers quelled the upset hopes...
...sports, Gould noted, should command our appreciation not because a player gets a hot hand or a magic rhythm--these are cognitive illusions--but because his level of skill increases the odds of a lucky run. All long-lived phenomena are "games of a gambler playing with a limited stake against a house with infinite resources... DiMaggio activated the greatest and most unattainable dream of all humanity, the hope and chimera of all sages and shamans: he cheated death, at least for a while." This was Gould at his best--profundity with a light touch, made all the more poignant...
...Samsung. Its sales jumped 49%, making it the world's third-largest phone maker. Taming The Bucking Bull H Merrill Lynch will pay a $100 million penalty and make its analysts more independent, ending the New York attorney general's probe. The firm still faces lawsuits from investors. High-Stakes games H Microsoft is backing up its belief that video games are the wave of the future by pledging $2 billion to develop an online game network and the Xbox. Family Corrections H A judge ordered the return of a $1 billion stake in Gazprom that former managers sold...