A strange new Washington species has come to haunt pharmaceutical marketers - Species tormentus federalis - the FDA bureaucrat. Sp. tormentus federalis has long been accustomed to working in relative anonymity, protected by the thick hide of the institution to which he...

When most traders are inhaling their lunch, James Burns, president of Aventine Investment Management, is usually arriving at his trading desk. Based in Huntington Station, N.Y., Aventine is a hedge fund that specializes in the Japanese securities markets. Burns typically starts his...

Sidney Sheldon, who won awards in three careers _ Broadway theater, movies and television _ then at age 50 turned to writing best-selling novels about stalwart women who triumph in a hostile world of ruthless men, has died. He was 89.Sheldon died Tuesday afternoon of...

Former first lady Lady Bird Johnson outlived her husband, Lyndon, by more than 35 years, expanding on her White House efforts to carve her own legacy as an environmentalist.When she died July 11 at age 94, she left behind countless miles of scenic highways across...