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...seen as a competing suitor for IDEC) and even if he manages to instill a new level of management intensity in the industry, biotech will remain a dicey game. Only one drug in 5,000 screened makes it to market, and even seasoned health-care investors are reluctant to handicap the process. "We'll take the risk that a company fails to execute its plan once it has a drug approval," says Stuart Weisbrod, chief investment officer of Merlin Biomed, a health-care hedge fund. "What we don't want is the risk that their product doesn't work...
Nemo's short fin--a deformity that does not slow him down one bit--became, says Stanton, "a metaphor for anything you worry is insufficient or hasn't formed yet in your child. Parents think their child's handicap is a reflection of the parent. They become obsessive and anxious over that, whether it is the child's ability to read or the way they walk. This movie says there is no perfect kid; there is no perfect father." And no guarantee that parents will ever have the answers. When Marlin asks the sea turtle Crush how a father knows...
...gifted writer like Joe Klein [IN THE ARENA, April 14] so gratuitously taunt President Bush about his inability to spontaneously speak about complex ideas and state that "he has not grown in stature or gravitas, as wartime leaders usually do"? If Bush had another handicap, such as being blind, Klein would surely not point out in the middle of a war that the President is still blind. Inarticulateness does not keep Bush from leading the country, nor does it prevent him from surrounding himself with brilliant, focused men and women who are quietly getting the job done. MARSHA...
These three considerations will undoubtedly handicap the immediate postwar regime, making it exceedingly difficult for democracy to flourish. To be sure, the consequences of occupation could also be none of these things. In time a successful transition from American interim rule to stable, democratic self-governance may prove possible. Indeed, the hope is the Iraqi people will truly be better off in the very near future, but unfortunately just as many uncertainties—if not more—exist today than before the outbreak of war. Whether liberation of the Iraqi people is truly on the horizon...
...practice getting around government censorship, knew what was going on. Not that it mattered: Those who could flee have already. The rest wait. "Why should we listen to the news?" said Mohammad, a Baghdad taxi driver. "What change can we make to this equation?" Currency traders continued to handicap the war; the dollar shot up in the exchange market from 260 Iraqi dinars to 285 in the hours after Bush's ultimatum...