SternJohn should have put Palace ahead for a third time after a two-versus-one break but his strike hit the inside of the post and was cleared off the line.
All too often, the board words the performance criteria in "babel-speak, " says John Kapitan, senior vice president at Stern Stewart, a shareholder-value consultancy in New York.
John Wallenstein, an attorney for Mr. Frenkel, said he had always wondered why Mr. Stern was never charged in the shopping-mall case when his client was.