One of the games that film students sometimes play is to judge a director on whether you have the illusion that the people on the screen will go on doing what they're doing after the camera leaves them.
* John Brennan must be pressed on drones: As the Post editorial board notes today, Senate Democrats must press Obama's pick for CIA director on whether he's willing to bring more transparency and Congressional oversight to Obama's drone program.
At one point, Trey Gowdy, the Republican from South Carolina best known for his investigation of Benghazi, pressed James Comey, the F.B.I. director, on whether reporters might be jailed for publishing classified information.
Question the director on whether the caregivers are certified in first aid and CPR, and if ongoing training is provided for staff.
It will be interesting to see how Mr. Schlingensief develops as an opera director, which may depend on whether he can focus his provocative visions with more discipline.
To control for the possible impact of an alternative corporate-governance mechanism on voluntary IC disclosure, we include in the regression the percentage of independent directors on the board (INDIR), whether the firm is audited by one of the "Big 4" accounting firms (BIG4), and whether the firm is cross-listed in New York (CLIST).
As in the prior few years, the number of situations in which an activist succeeded in getting at least one director on the board (whether through an election win or a settlement) remained high, but below 50% for the third consecutive year.
Following are public comments by the F.B.I. director, Robert S. Mueller III, on whether the bureau had prior indications of the Sept. 11 attacks: The tragedies quite clearly astonish and shock me and the country.
She was speaking following a meeting of the WHO's international health regulations emergency committee, summoned to advise the director general on whether to make the declaration, which calls in international resources and expertise.
Barclays said Britain's financial regulator had started an investigation into the bank and four current and former senior employees, including finance director Chris Lucas, on whether the bank made sufficient disclosures about the fees it paid in a 2008 capital raising.
