PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—About 400 Philadelphia Chinatown community members and their supporters gathered at the Ocean Harbor Restaurant on Dec. 14 for a meeting on the 76ers’ proposal to build a basketball arena near Chinatown. The meeting was hosted by the Asian American United (AAU) and more than 20 Chinatown community organizations. This is the first public…

Pfizer Inc. said on Monday it would buy drug developer Arena Pharmaceuticals for $6.7 billion in cash, to add a promising treatment candidate that targets diseases affecting the stomach and intestine. The $100 per share offer is double the last closing price of Arena’s shares, which surged 92 percent to $95.90 in premarket trading. This…

“Nothing in life,” Winston Churchill once wrote, “is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.” Though I’m a Churchill fan, and though no one’s ever shot at me with or without result, here I must disagree with him. Falling in love, and having that person love you, is surely exhilarating. An inheritance of…