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...center of the latest greedfest is Sam Waksal, an immunologist who turned into a dazzling biotechnology entrepreneur. In 1984 he founded ImClone, a little-known company until it made headlines for an apparent success with a cancer treatment called Erbitux in 1999. Waksal, 54, was always as much salesman as scientist and employed his reputation and charm as a ladder into elite circles that included home-decor guru Stewart, Mick Jagger, actress Mariel Hemingway, financier Carl Icahn and Dr. John Mendelsohn, the cancer-drug pioneer and former Enron board member. Waksal's eclectic posse combined science and celebrity with stock...
...murder and racketeering charges. The former juvenile delinquent from the South Bronx relished the spotlight, favoring $2,000 suits and tony restaurants, smirking throughout his four trials and winning populist-hero status in the tabloids. Although he had always claimed to be a $100,000- a-year plumbing salesman from Ozone Park, N.Y., Gotti was convicted in 1992 with the help of testimony from mob turncoat Sammy Gravano...
...most distinguished writers of the 20th century; in New York City. In a 60-year theater career, Whitehead mounted premier productions of Tennessee Williams' Orpheus Descending (1957) and Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms (1952), along with the 1984 revival of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, which starred Dustin Hoffman and John Malkovich. DIED. DOBRI DZHUROV, 86, reformist communist general who participated in the coup that overthrew Bulgarian dictator Todor Zhivkov in 1989, bringing democracy to the former Soviet satellite; in Sofia. Dzhurov was Bulgarian Defense Minister for 28 years before becoming a lawmaker...
...girl who had been sleeping with her sisters on the family's backyard trampoline was abducted at gunpoint during the night by Keith Glenn Hescock, 42. After allegedly assaulting her at his home and chaining her to a bed, Hescock went to his day job as a traveling tool salesman. The girl found a nearby fire extinguisher, beat at the chain for several hours to break it, freed herself and then, perhaps because her family's home line was busy, called her parents' office. The employee who answered picked her up and took her home. Police staked out Hescock...
DIED. JOSE LUTZENBERGER, 75, outspoken Brazilian environmentalist; after a heart attack; in Porto Alegre. Once a salesman for a German chemical company, Lutzenberger changed jobs after visiting an apple orchard that had been sprayed with his company's chemicals. As Brazil's Secretary of the Environment, Lutzenberger pushed for punitive measures for industrial polluters and helped create an oasis in the Amazon for the Yanomami Indians...