earned before. another ceo who has been on the highest paid list for a couple of years now is the ceo of oxidantal petroleum, ray irani. outrage over his pay in 2009, in 2010 he earned $76 million, it s led to some changes at the company. they re going to be cutting the maximum stock grants thatç a c can receive because of outrage over what mr. irani has received in the past. tamron? mary thompson, big numbers there. thank you very much. coming up, several women in france defy that country s new ban on islamic face veils, burqas. it went into effect today. and rut ger students try to redeem themselves from the fallout over snooki s speech on campus and they re turning to this man for help. [ male announcer ] look outside. it s grow time.