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RESIGNING. J. CRAIG VENTER, 55, brash maverick scientist who raced to decipher the human genome and goaded competitors to do the same; as president of Celera Genomics, the firm he helped found in 1998. Conflict over the future of Celera, as it moves from selling gene information to developing drugs, sparked the departure...
...definitely paid dividends for Bush on the campaign trail. After the candidate's stunning loss to John McCain in the New Hampshire primary, Reed's firm came to the rescue in South Carolina, bombarding the state's 400,000 religious conservatives with negative phone calls and mailings about the maverick candidate from Arizona. Bush won handily...
...young artists - modeled on existing centers in London, Amsterdam, Berlin and New York - in an attempt to revive the French capital's flagging reputation on the international contemporary art circuit. This delicate mission was entrusted to Nicolas Bourriaud and Jérôme Sans, a pair of maverick art critics and exhibition curators who wowed the faceless bureaucrats at the Culture Ministry with a proposal teeming with 21st century buzzwords. Their brainchild would be a "living laboratory of contemporary art," a "non-defined space in which different projects could cross-fertilize one another," a "tool in which the visual...
UNITED STATES Suspects Booked Shoe-bomb suspect Richard Reid denied all nine charges against him brought by a Boston court, relating to his alleged attempt to blow up a U.S. airliner en route from Paris to Miami. New evidence suggested that British-born Reid, initially thought to be a maverick, operated as a terrorist scout for the al-Qaeda network. In Virginia, U.S. Taliban fighter John Walker was charged with four criminal counts, including conspiracy to kill U.S. nationals abroad...
DIED. WILLIAM JOVANOVICH, 81, maverick businessman who became chairman of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in 1954, seven years after joining the publishing house as a college-textbook salesman; of heart failure; in San Diego. During his 36-year tenure, Jovanovich also published his own writings, including a 1990 novel, The World's Last Night...