Word: hassan
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...south of Tikrit, nabbed two more "high level" resistance leaders on the same night. Said Russell after the raid: "The source came through." And he could come through again--if his name doesn't end up on the wrong list. --With reporting by Timothy J. Burger and Massimo Calabresi/Washington, Hassan Fattah and Vivienne Walt/Baghdad and Michael Ware/Tikrit
...they do not," says an elder who declines to give his name. "The resistance does exist, but it's not to protect Saddam or avenge Uday and Qusay. The resistance belongs to the community." A community that's hard to fit on just one deck of cards. --Reported by Hassan Fattah and Vivienne Walt/Baghdad, Massimo Calabresi/Washington and Michael Ware/Tarmiyah
...help revive growth at battered Schering-Plough, Cox, 45, has been hired to head its global pharmaceutical group. She held a similar position at Pharmacia, where she built global sales, boosting Celebrex to a $3 billion brand. A trained pharmacist, Cox joins another recent Pharmacia recruit, CEO Fred Hassan, with whom she worked to revive that firm before it was bought by Pfizer earlier this year. Hassan and Cox face big challenges, which include declining profits, lost patents and a federal investigation into sales and marketing practices...
...whether it should be a relaxed country whose citizens happen to be Muslims or an austere Islamic state adhering to Shari'a law. This ambiguity is responsible for the ongoing tug-of-war between the country's religious extremists and Westernized moderates; Karachi embodies these contradictions. As sociologist Arif Hassan of the nongovernmental organization Urban Resource Center puts it, "For Karachi's youth, there are two choices: go to America or join the jihad...
...Karachi: his charity foundation now runs orphanages, mental institutions, clinics and ambulance services. Ardeshir Cowasjee, an irascible millionaire who wears silk pajamas and writes a weekly column for Dawn in which he tracks corruption to the highest places, vows to stay put, as does sociologist and city planner Arif Hassan who campaigns to save the few remaining buildings from Karachi's regal colonial past. Roland De Souza, whose organization SHERRI fights against illegal land developers whom he says are often in cahoots with city nabobs and some military officers, also insists he will always call Karachi his home. They, along...