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Harris had a point. But then again, how often do you see the über-precise Carlos D discard his bass mid-song to play a rough saxophone riff or nimbly manipulate a set of keyboard loops with his feet? Menomena has always been a more claustrophobic, oddball project—and, as they showed last week, it’s had a most liberating effect on their music...
...Steve N. Jacobs ’05 boasts the most massive bed on campus. He created a makeshift king-sized by stacking four abandoned university-issue mattresses over two bed frames two-by-two. As for whether the über-bed goes to, ahem, good use, Jacobs wryly replies: “Oh, definitely...
...pretense of “restructuring.” In fact, the relevant issue at the time—combining the positions of Dean of the College and Dean of Undergraduate Education—had been initially proposed by Lewis years earlier. Details of how the new über-dean of the College would operate were scarce, and we worried that haphazardly combining the immense responsibilities of two large and complicated bureaucracies under one individual might be fundamentally flawed. When then Dean of Undergraduate Education Benedict H. Gross ’71 was appointed to the new position...
...president of TAP Pharmaceutical Products, Watkins, 51, proved his mettle as both master marketer and manager. Not only did he help turn its antacid Prevacid into a $3.2 billion ber-blockbuster and double the company's annual revenues, to $4 billion; he also helped the firm clean up its act after it paid $875 million in fines and civil penalties in 2001, in part for bribing doctors to prescribe one of its drugs. Now as the new CEO of Human Genome Sciences, in Rockville, Md., Watkins has taken on a different challenge. Since HGS was founded...
...would have been natural for Jeffrey Immelt to reflexively embrace the strategies of his predecessor, storied ber-CEO Jack Welch, who built GE into one of the world's most profitable companies. But Immelt, 48, quickly went his own way, imposing new long-term strategies. When scandal erupted over Welch's perk-laden send-off, Immelt responded by taking a lead role in corporate reform. For starters, he put more independent directors on the board and got rid of stock options as part of his pay. "We know we are studied," he says. "We feel we have a responsibility...