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...It’s pretty much in the pantheon of great discoveries in the field,” Marc W. Kirschner, head of the department of cell biology at Harvard Medical School (HMS), told the Boston Globe Monday...

Author: By Susanne C. Chock, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Graduate Wins Nobel Prize | 10/9/2002 | See Source »

...award. After four decades and thousands of lawsuits, Robert A. Levy of the CATO institute points out, no tobacco company has ever paid any court-awarded damages. Given that they win eight or nine of every ten individual litigations on average, according to Goldman Sachs tobacco analyst Marc Cohen, they have little cause for concern. If the Bullock decision signaled a real threat to Phillip Morris, we would expect investors, the most paranoid sentries of corporate danger, to sell off stock as quickly as possible. But although its share prices slipped about 10 percent on Friday, it rebounded Monday...

Author: By Blake Jennelle, | Title: Tobacco Wins When It Loses | 10/9/2002 | See Source »

...attorneys need only show that populations of people would not have chosen to smoke with full disclosure of information. The ultimate test of this distinction will not come until the first appeals of this type are decided, but there is certainly potential for success. As Goldman Sachs tobacco analyst Marc Cohen points out when analyzing the legal threats of individual and collective lawsuits, “The real challenge, in our opinion, are the aggregate suits...

Author: By Blake Jennelle, | Title: Tobacco Wins When It Loses | 10/9/2002 | See Source »

...Marc Shaiman, the show's composer (and lyricist, with his partner Scott Wittman), built an exceptional body of work as arranger of pop standards for Bette Midler. He also collaborated with Trey Parker on the settings for the wonderfully knowledgeable songs in "South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut." "Hairspray" is his first "original" score. I'm sorry I have to put quote marks around the adjectives modifying his work here, but the score is not a general evocation of first-decade rock 'n roll, as "Grease" so famously was and "The Rocky Horror Show" so brilliantly. Almost all the Shaiman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Let Us "Spray" | 10/7/2002 | See Source »

Jargon, indeed, was the theme of the ceremony. The world premiere of librettist Marc Abraham’s “The Jargon Opera” also amused the audience between the presentation of awards. The accompanist, Gregory Neil, was billed as the pianist “with a broken hand...

Author: By Nathan J. Heller, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Scientists Come Out To Play at Ig Nobels | 10/4/2002 | See Source »

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