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...with last year's revenue up 14% over 2001's, to $1.3 billion. Yet its future looks uncertain; few of its new drugs are close to reaching market. So the firm, based in Emeryville, Calif., has made Pien, 45, its new CEO. Born in China and reared in the Bronx, Pien has run GlaxoSmithKline's international operations for two years and is expected to help Chiron extend its global reach. Analysts say his toughest task will be building up the product pipeline...
Richard Price grew up in a housing project in the Bronx. He lives now with his wife and two teenage daughters in a fancy-funky town house off Gramercy Park in Manhattan, the kind of place you head for after you make a few million as a novelist and screenwriter. The author of Clockers and Freedomland - lush, knowing, best-selling books about struggle and redemption in the projects - has been up in that high-priced league for more than a decade. Which means that in the eyes of the world, he suffers from a variation of the Bruce Springsteen Problem...
Sitting last weekend with two friends in the same Bronx diner where she used to fall asleep after long days on the streets, the 23-year-old Murray speaks with candor about the difficulties she faced growing up. She remains guarded, however, about the details of her life since she left the streets of the Bronx for Cambridge...
...have returned to the old Bronx neighborhood where she was raised, back to the city that she says she loves for its anonymity, but she has by no means retreated from the spotlight, at least...
Much of the enforcement for Early Decision agreements was undertaken by high schools, who could endanger their relationships with colleges if their students backed out of binding agreements. According to Stephen Singer, the college counselor at Horace Mann School in the Bronx, Horace Mann required students applying early to multiple colleges—and their parents—to sign a written promise to attend their Early Decision school if accepted. This agreement was included in their files, he said, and specified that if they tried to renege on their agreements, Horace Mann would call the relevant colleges and inform...