Well, sorry, again I can't resist. In today's New York Times, Nicholas D. Kristof writes this column about how Richard Fuld, the chief of Lehman Brothers,

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took home nearly half-a-billion dollars in total compensation between 1993 and 2007
in order to turn his company into dust. That amounts to getting paid 17,000 dollars an hour to do the job of obliterating an 158-year-old firm.

I'm sure he richly deserved that salary!

Ann