As an execuitive vice president at American Home Products , now called Wyeth (nyse: WYE - news - people ), Hassan helped hatch a plan that protects Premarin, a hormone replacement therapy, from generic competition on the grounds that its formula is too distinct to easily copy.

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Last fall the network quashed Hatch's plan to host NBC's Saturday Night Live.

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Hatch and Bond said they opposed the plan because it would bring terrorism suspects to U.S. soil.

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