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...trainee--but one with a rocket strapped to his back. A year after joining Sandoz, Vasella became product manager for a new drug named Sandostatin, approved to treat a rare pancreatic cancer. The head of Sandoz's U.S. pharmaceutical unit joked that Vasella could consider his job well done if he made Sandostatin a $5 million product, a pittance in the branded-drug business. Vasella realized that to make Sandostatin a commercial success, he had to find new uses for it. And he believed he could do that only by radically changing the game...
...episode lays bare the hard-line psychology of Turkey's military, a powerful political player. It does not brook public scrutiny. The hostage-taking incident, in which 200 PKK guerrillas stormed a heavily protected unit, killing 12 soldiers, is still shrouded in mystery. How did so many guerrillas manage to infiltrate a heavily guarded area? Why did it take so long to get reinforcements to the scene? How did the guerrillas and hostages leave? In their testimony, the men - all of whom were in different positions in a mountainous region near the Iraqi border - said they found themselves under fire...
...third quarter: An absolutely beautiful punt from Hull is handled poorly by the Harvard coverage unit. What could have been a downed ball inside the three ends up in the endzone after being mishandled by Derrick Barker...
...Among those arrested were six ex-soldiers from the special-forces Counter Revolutionary Warfare unit, elements of which were linked to both the 2000 coup against then-P.M. Chaudhry and a subsequent mutiny in which Bainimarama narrowly escaped assassination. Also arrested was ex-intelligence chief Col. Metuisela Mua, who served a jail term for his part in the 2000 events...
...issue is not bringing an ROTC unit to Harvard. Units are merging today, not splitting. We should normalize Harvard’s relations with MIT ROTC. Harvard ought to pay its bills to MIT directly. It ought to bus our ROTC students as it buses our volleyball teams...