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...both master marketer and manager. Not only did he help turn its antacid Prevacid into a $3.2 billion über-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 in 1992 by scientist William Haseltine, the company has not taken a single drug...
NEWT GINGRICH The ex-Speaker's second novel in a series, Grant Comes East, fictionalizes the Civil War. Unlike the man, the books have bipartisan appeal...
...intricate art of sewing sweet-grass baskets. It's a skill that goes back to the West Africa of four centuries ago, what is now Sierra Leone and Senegal. This eloquently written, resplendently illustrated book tells how the practitioners of that art endured enslavement and deportation to America, the Civil War, the coming of the 20th century and the social dislocations of World War II--all the while struggling to preserve their native traditions. Today sweet-grass baskets are sewn mostly for the tourist trade, but that hardly matters to the grandmother- narrator. The unbroken circle of the title...
...battle for Fallujah has reduced another city to rubble and increased the hatred of the U.S. among ordinary Iraqis. I see no way out of this mess, short of leaving the country to its own devices. Then, of course, another dictator will take over, or a civil war will begin. The U.S. has no legitimate role in the Middle East. If we need Iraq's oil, we can bid for it on the world market. Our interference in the region has been counterproductive. There will be no scattering of rose petals for Americans, but there will be many more deaths...
...Augustus?'" he says. "'You think you have a savior in the Emperor? It's all foolishness. If you want to know the peace of God, not the Pax Romana, you have to look somewhere else.'" Since the '60s, such readings have inspired Christian social activists from civil rights preachers to Catholic liberation theologians...