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...Little wonder, then, that Allergan and Medicis are aiming new products at each others' best sellers. The battle started last spring when Medicis was set to pay $3.2 billion for Inamed, a medical aesthetics firm with a promising product pipeline that included potential Restylane competitor Juvéderm and the U.S. rights to distribute Dysport (a Botox-like muscle relaxant that will be marketed here as Reloxin). Weeks before the deal was to close, Allergan, based in Irvine, Calif., swooped in and outbid Medicis by $200 million and also had to fork over $90 million to Medicis as a termination...
...When editors all want the same thing from a cartoonist, and the cartoonists are all drawing on the same topics at the same time, it is no wonder that we come up with the simple, easy, first-gag-that-comes-to-mind,” Cagle wrote. “That is what I see in this poor, besieged Harvard cartoonist...
...might even wonder whether the committee has chosen to pursue positive press coverage and change merely for its own sake. When last year’s now-defunct proposal for a system of distribution requirements was released, Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith L. Ryan’s response was that “It’s not going to put Harvard on the front page of The New York Times.” Possibly not. But maybe this is an issue where the best course of action isn’t to make waves...
...misuse of “literally” is nothing new. But it’s not the misuse that leaves me confounded; instead, the overuse, the compulsive use, the far too common use–they are driving me crazy and making me wonder: Why such repetition...
...Amnesty International fears a darker agenda. "The government claims Abu Doha is a security threat, yet can't convict him of anything here - so they send this dangerous man to what one might presume would be freedom in Algeria," the Amnesty spokesman says. "It's very difficult not to wonder if this is being done with the prior knowledge that Algeria will be interning and perhaps interrogating Abu Doha on behalf...