Sorrell not faring too badly in this recession

On this first-anniversary weekend of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, which triggered the worst economic crisis in a generation, the Guardian reminds us that some have felt the pain a whole lot less than the rest of us over the past year. In its annual salary round-up, the U.K. paper reports that even as FTSE 100 companies were laying off tens of thousands of staffers and their stock prices lost a third of their value, the people running these companies saw their basic salaries rise 10 percent, with full- and part-time directors of those businesses sharing a windfall of more than $1.65