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...understands the power of forgiveness better than most issued a list of more than 100 pardons. Tucked in among the names was that of Marc Rich., 65, one of the world's most wanted white-collar fugitives. In 1983, the brilliant, rapacious commodities trader, along with his partner, Pincus Green, was charged with an illegal oil-pricing scheme that amounted to what might be the biggest tax swindle in U.S. history, to the tune of almost $50 million - not to mention trading with Iran during the hostage crisis. The latter charge was later dropped against Rich's company...
...weeks ago, Janet Pincus' father died. She had looked after him for 15 years, ever since her mother passed away. Pincus, now 54, had helped him through heart attacks, a pituitary tumor and gall-bladder surgery. Two days before he died, he drifted into consciousness long enough to open his arms to his daughter, rock her in them and make one request. "Just stay with me," he said. That was their last conversation. Since his death, Pincus has tried to keep occupied. In the quiet hours, after a day spent teaching kindergarten and before her husband gets home, she sinks...
...National Securities, a firm that says it is likely to be in on the deal, believes the company can be floated, pointing out that BearStearns found a way to take Playboy public: "History has shown that Wall Street has raised money for adult companies," he says. Fidelity and Warburg Pincus hold blocks of Playboy stock, while BearStearns and T. Rowe Price own positions in Spice Entertainment, another adult-media company...
Biologist Gregory Pincus had his hands full in 1950, when the Planned Parenthood organization gave him $30,000 and told him to develop a contraceptive that was "harmless, entirely reliable, and aesthetically satisfactory to husband and wife." Within 10 years, however, Pincus and his colleagues delivered, inventing the drug that sparked the sexual revolution. Introduced in the U.S. in 1960, the birth control pill, known simply as the Pill, was an ovulation-suppressing mix of estrogen and progestin that was 99% effective...
...endocrinologists Gregory Pincus, John Rock and C.R. Garcia develop the birth-control pill...