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...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 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...
...division with Sony's. Debt has dropped to below $700 million, and Thielen says the firm is again on an expansion course. Don't expect Middelhoff-style grandiose plans, however: probable targets for acquisition are small to midsize TV stations in Eastern Europe. "It wasn't so much a clean-up as a change of philosophy," says Klaus Goldhammer, a German media consultant. "Thielen is taking Bertelsmann back to its roots." --By Peter Gumbel
After arrival at 29 Garden St. for booking, Strahan complained about wrist pain from the handcuffs so HUPD took him to the hospital; there he received x-rays and a clean bill of health. According to the HUPD report, Strahan afterward asked an officer if he was wearing a vest, then asked, “What was the history of Harvard police officers getting shot...
...know that Fat Albert is a clean thing, and it’s a Cosby thing, and I wouldn’t want to do anything to tarnish it, but I want also to be free to do whatever is funny for me,” says Thompson...
...song, the closest thing the college rock scene ever got to an anthem—as well as the catchiest (and only) love song ever written about Buñuel and DalĂ’s Un chien andalou—immediately animated the crowd. The sound was clean, loud and well-mixed. The bass anchored, the drums propelled, the guitars sang and Black’s voice mauled. The Pixies were back together. This is what the crowd had waited 12 years to hear...