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The following candidates will be elected by the Class A and Class B shareholders voting together: * Craig S. Donohue, 49, Chief Executive Officer * Timothy S. Bitsberger, 51, Managing Director, Official Institutions FIG Coverage Group of BNP PNA and current director * Jackie M. Clegg, 48, Managing Partner, Clegg International Consultants, LLC and current director * James A. Donaldson, 66, Independent Trader and current director * J. Dennis Hastert, 69, Retired Speaker of the House of Representatives and current director * William P. Miller II, 55, Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer, Financial Markets International, Inc. and current director * Terry L. Savage, 66, Financial Journalist and Author, President, Terry Savage Productions, Ltd. and current director * Christopher Stew...
Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone's Manhattan apartment offers a bouquet of visual delights. The cerulean Hudson River rushes past below while the New York skyline is dotted with cutting-edge design projects. Creating decor that matched the condominium's natty neighbourhood was an uphill task for New York-based interior designer Geoffrey Bradfield. But the biggest challenge for him was to finish the project at a blurring speed. "Being a movie director, my client is used to having film sets constructed overnight. He was expecting a similar schedule with this apartment," says Bradfield. "As much of my work is customised and designed by my company, I had to explain to him that there were certain time frames involved. But I work best under a deadline and we pulled it off.
Tarun Shah, CEO, Sharekhan The tiger never sleeps
It seems that Planning Commission chief Montek Singh Ahluwalia was never in the race to succeed Dominique Strauss-Kahn as IMF managing French finance minister Christine Lagarde is now the firm frontrunner, but emerging economies are likely to put up an alternate candidate. Former South African finance minister Trevor Manuel tops the probables. Ahluwalia hasn't emerged as one. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee indicated that India may back a candidate from an emerging economy but made no mention of Ahluwalia.
In December last year, an agitated Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) director Amar Pratap Singh walked into the prime minister's office (PMO). He complained that his officers were under pressure to go slow in their investigation against the then telecom minister A. Raja. "I will have to work independently if the Government wants this investigation to reach its logical end," said Singh. If the big guns were interrogated honestly without any political interference, he said, public confidence in the system would improve drastically. Singh was granted a go-ahead. The fact that he needed clearance inadvertently confirmed a basic problem: the CBI moves less by the impulse of law and duty and more by the prodding of its political masters. With the recent fillip from the Supreme Court wanti...
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