Thursday, February 28, 2002
Executive Paywatch
“Click on a company name to find the CEO’s total compensation and to see how it compares to your and other workers’ earnings. 2000 CEO pay data for the companies in the Standard & Poor’s Super 1,500 Index will be added to the database as the information becomes publicly available. For the CEOs of [...]
Thursday, February 28, 2002
“Crowe, who won the Best Actor BAFTA for A Beautiful Mind, was reportedly so incensed that a poem he recited was cut from the tape-delayed telecast [ of the BAFTA's] that he roughed up one of the show’s producers.
Crowe -”Fat Kiwi idiot”
The enraged Gladiator allegedly accosted director Malcolm Gerrie at an afterparty at London’s [...]
Thursday, February 28, 2002
Wonderful story.
“Muslims in the Norwegian capital Oslo have for the first time been granted the right to broadcast calls to prayer, a daily tradition in much of the Islamic world.
Six months ago the World Islamic Mission applied to the city’s authorities to allow a mosque in the old town - Gamle Oslo - to call [...]
Thursday, February 28, 2002
The bad boy of socio-biology, Testosterone, is back in the news. This time for causing a newly identified syndrome: “irritable male syndrome”. This syndrome is caused by a sudden drop in the levels of testosterone (something that happens for example when your favourite sports team loses ) and can affect men of any age. This [...]
Thursday, February 28, 2002
“In 1989 the BBC screened a documentary featuring John Davidson, a 16-year-old youth with severe Touretteís. Last night BBC2 caught up with John in The Boy Canít Help It, and if there has been a finer example of documentary-making this year it has passed me by. John has grown into a fine young man although [...]
Thursday, February 28, 2002
“What governs the Englishman is his inner atmosphere, the weather in his soul. Instinctively the Englishman is no missionary, no conqueror. He prefers the country to the town, and home to foreign parts. He is rather glad and relieved if only natives will remain natives and strangers strangers, and at a comfortable distance from himself. [...]
Thursday, February 28, 2002
Ken Livingstone has demanded urgent action to tackle discrimination against black officers in the Met.
The Mayor has called on the Metropolitan Police Authority to intervene amid claims that black staff are 12 times more likely than their white counterparts to be involved in Employment Tribunal proceedings against Scotland Yard.
He says a string of [...]
Sunday, February 24, 2002
“GUN crime has almost trebled in London during the past year and is soaring in other British cities, according to Home Office figures.
Police chiefs fear that Britain is witnessing the kind of cocaine-fuelled violence that burst upon American cities in the 1980s. Cocaine, particularly from Jamaica, now floods into Britain, while the availability of weapons [...]
Sunday, February 24, 2002
“The South African observer mission to Zimbabwe’s presidential election suffered a crippling blow to its credibility yesterday after its leader refused to acknowledge that Zanu-PF supporters attacked some of his monitors.
About 200 chanting youths laid siege to the office of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in the small mining town of Kwekwe on [...]
Sunday, February 24, 2002
“An entire class of person has sprung up to assist the government with the
monumental task of managing the race related thoughts, emotion, pride,
prejudices and opinions of nearly 60 million people. They can be loosely
described as the ‘race lobby’. The members of the lobby vary in their degree
of commitment to the core task of this [...]