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...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...
...MUCH FORCE? American soldiers stormed Saddam Hospital in Nasiriyah with overwhelming power, but according to the BBC, the Pentagon knew it was needless. The BBC says U.S. forces had been tipped off by Nasiriyah resident Hassan Hamoud Awad that no Iraqi soldiers were in the hospital. Hassan told TIME the same story: that just minutes before the rescue, a U.S. translator approached him and asked if fedayeen (irregular Iraqi forces) were stationed at the hospital. Hassan said they were not. Iraqi forces had been stationed there but had fled by the time U.S. troops arrived. The Pentagon does not deny...
...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...
...When we talk about Saddam, we have to look over our shoulders because we are still afraid." Hassan Maki, in Mahawil, Iraq, on the dictator's lingering presence...