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...particular drug company has been a significant player in Botswana: Merck. The U.S. firm created some of the first ARVs capable of treating HIV and AIDS (Crixivan and Stocrin), but has in the past been criticized for its methods of distributing them. In 2004, MSF singled out Merck for reneging on commitments to release the medicines at a cost of less than $1 per person per day. Merck was hurt by such accusations. (According to the firm's website, its founder, George W. Merck, once said: "We try never to forget that medicine is for the people...
Dick asked me out when we were both 16. I couldn't resist. He had a crew cut, and he was a football player. He didn't talk a lot, but when he did, everything he had to say was interesting. That was the beginning, and it's now 50 years later...
Entwistle threw that logic out with last night's room service. He initially recruited the majority of his investment-banking team from other Goldman offices. They had in common a commitment to make Goldman a player in India's boom. All but two employees are of Indian descent, but they're as likely to have come from New York City, London or Tokyo as Bangalore. Their boss can rely on "a team that knows Goldman's particular systems and culture inside and out," Moniz says. "They only have to get up to speed on the local market...
According to a 1999 study by psychologists at Murray State, a significant minority of fans - if guaranteed anonymity - would even support injuring an opposing player or coach. In 1940 the Cornell football team forfeited a victory after realizing that it had been mistakenly given an extra play. If a coach did that today, sports writers would declare him a saint. And his team's fans would boil...
...World Cup team, and helped supply the pressure that caused an own-goal against Uruguay in their Round of Sixteen game. The Grand Prairie native also helped his club team, the Dallas Texans 88 Red, to earn the youth national championship, and was recently selected as Ivy League Player of the Week. This season has also seen other Crimson players in the national spotlight. Junior Michael Fucito was named to Top Drawer Soccer’s Team of the Week, as well as the Ivy League Honor Roll along with his teammate, senior co-captain Matt Hoff. Hoff was also...