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Novartis has since fashioned itself as a health-care company, but its core business, which generated 63% of group sales last year, is branded pharmaceuticals, led by brands such as Diovan and Sandimmun. Vasella leaves the other units--including generic drugs, animal health, Gerber, the eye-care unit CIBA Vision and over-the-counter medicines--in the hands of trusted lieutenants. Novartis announced earlier this year that it will divest the unit that makes foods such as Ovaltine. Some analysts say Novartis could pick up its growth if it got rid of more of its noncore businesses. But Vasella argues...
Montreal's greatest attraction remains its inner cityscape. Though it is a largely French-speaking metropolis of almost 3.5 million (nearly everyone speaks at least a little English), its core is easy to explore on foot. Visitors inevitably are drawn downtown, the heart of which is Rue Sainte-Catherine and the dozens of streets that radiate from it. In the winter the entire district is accessible through a 19-mile grid of underground passages and atriums known as the underground city. The nearby and stately Rue Sherbrooke is also worth checking out, especially from around high-end Rue Crescent...
...curricular home of studio arts, photography, filmmaking, film studies, environmental studies, video art and performance, and critical theory,” according to its description in the FAS student handbook. The concentration includes both academic study and studio courses ass part of its requirements. At its core, the concentration combines a wide range of artistic fields, including more traditional versions of art, like painting or sculpting, but also other forms, such as design and animation.In fact, according to Stilgoe, “very few” VES grads become professional artists, “because you can?...
...other business, Professor Jay M. Harris—chair of the committee in charge of transitioning away from the Core Curriculum—said at the meeting that the present estimate is that the class of 2013 will be the first to graduate solely under the new General Education system...
This is the first time the administration has provided a date for the dismissal of the Core. Before yesterday’s meeting, Harris had said that the class of 2011 would be able to graduate under the Core, and perhaps...