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Allergan's triumph was short-lived, though. The Federal Trade Commission challenged the company's Botox monopoly and ruled that it couldn't retain Reloxin. Guess who got the spoils? Medicis. "We lost the battle but got the product we wanted anyway," says Manny Kapur, Medicis' business director in Canada. "And we got to buy it with their money," adds Jonah Shacknai, chairman and CEO of Medicis...
...vast majority of congressional districts into fortresses for incumbents, to the point where the number of House seats in serious contention is only about three dozen, compared with roughly 100 in the 1994 landslide that brought the G.O.P. to power with a 54-seat pickup. And the Republicans retain their advantage in money and, most operatives on both sides agree, the pinpoint sophistication of their turnout operation among a conservative base in which Bush still has nearly 90% approval in most polls. But even Republicans fret their loyalists have been discouraged by the Mark Foley scandal, and can't match...
Your cover image was an apt metaphor for the governing style of the Republican majority in Congress [Oct. 16]. Its members have bullied, lied, changed rules, twisted arms and done everything possible to retain power, without consideration for the minority Democrats or the nation as a whole. The G.O.P. has violated the principles it once stood for--especially fiscal conservatism--and now stands only for clinging to power...
...state institutions - SCIRI's Badr Brigade has been incorporated into the Interior Ministry forces [in whose uniforms they are accused of sectarian killings], while the Mahdi Army has been drawn into the police force in some parts of the country - but they tend to be incorporated in ways that retain their militia identity. The calculation of the U.S. and Maliki last summer was correct: The militias exist because Shi'ites feel insecure. And that feeling of insecurity has been deliberately provoked and reinforced by Sunni insurgents who have targeted Shi'ites. The Shi'ites are tired of getting blown...
...distinction between the Literature and Arts A and B categories. Literature and Arts A courses are concerned with the analysis of literary texts, while Literature and Arts B courses examine non-literary forms of art. The best way to instruct undergraduates in literature and the arts is simply to retain the current Literature and Arts A and B categories as they stand in lieu of the proposed Cultural Traditions and Cultural Change category. What should not be retained from the present system, however, is the general constraint that few departmental offerings satisfy Literature and Arts requirements. Any course?...