Critics like Nell Minow, the "Movie Mom, " write intelligently for parents about the content and context of films.
Some corporate-governance activists, such as Nell Minow of the Corporate Library, question quite how genuine this independence will be.
Ms. MINOW: It's when they get paid that kind of money by - for destroying shareholder value, it's an outrage, it's appalling.
"Their big advantage is the reputational fragility of board members, " Minow said.
Of course, when the journalists started calling Nell Minow and myself, they all wanted to know who else had these Golden Perks.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Nell Minow.
If only more shareholders shared Ms Minow's robust approach to corporate parenting.
Negative headlines could have a psychological effect on the directors, says Nell Minow, the director of The Corporate Library, which tracks governance trends.
"Americans today have two major worries: the vulnerability of their investments and vulnerability from terrorism, " notes Nell Minow, a leading corporate governance activist.
Nell Minow, director of The Corporate Library, said in an interview last week that shareholder revolts typically do not result in a 100% victory.
Ms. NELL MINOW (Co-Founder, The Corporate Library): We're not talking about - these guys - these are not scapegoats and they are certainly not virgins.
If, as seems likely, the Global Security Risk Monitor becomes an emerging hot issue as Nell Minow predicts, at a minimum it'll embarrass some major U.S. companies.
"They want access to capital, and limited liability, but they want the control of a private company, " says Nell Minow, editor of the Corporate Library, a shareholder advocate.
Corporate governance finger-wagger Nell Minow of the Corporate Library concurs.
The answer, argues Ms Minow, lies in the market: the government's job ought to be to remove obstacles that prevent the market from working and stop shareholders exercising their power.
In 2010, Harvard Law Dean Martha Minow publicly slammed a student for the contents of a private email to a few classmates that expressed an openness to controversial scientific views on race and intelligence.
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As the critic Nell Minow put it to me, there were any number of reasons for sex not to take place in the '40s, '50s and even '60s, but it's a near-insuperable challenge to delay the deed today.
The threat of sex is forestalled by turning Bella's suitors into a vampire and a werewolf, and the gimmick has a potent and unusual side effect: Rather than play to their supernatural predatory strengths to get what they want, "both men are completely unmanned by their love for her, " says Minow.
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