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...junkies among us are probably aware, Harvard Law School suffers from the lowest student satisfaction rate of any law school in the nation. To brighten its image, the school has hired McKinsey to determine its own real customer satisfaction rate. Four full-time consultants have been hired on a two-year fact-finding mission to collect "objective and systematic" data on why the Law School has failed its students of late. If you don't believe it, check out their office on the second floor of Hauser Hall...
...their local newspapers. The American Society of Newspaper Editors study finds that about 80 percent of those surveyed said newspapers print sensational stories simply to sell papers; nearly half of those polled are angry with their local rag for running misleading headlines. And in a finding sure to brighten the job prospects of copy editors everywhere, more than one third said they found a spelling mistake or similar error in the paper at least once a week...
Whether they seek to brighten their moods, stave off disease, rev up their sex lives or retain their youth, more and more Americans are supplementing and replacing prescription medicines with a profusion of pills and potions that contain various medicinal herbs, vitamins and minerals. Some are proved safe and effective; many are not. Consumers spent more than $12 billion on natural supplements last year--nearly double the amount spent in 1994, and sales continue to grow at better than 10% a year. Shoppers can stock up not only at incense-scented tofu-and-sprouts shops but also at corner pharmacies...
...your high school paramour. According to one lonely Thayer girl, scanning a few photos of her boyfriend (such as pictures of him in his baseball uniform, flexing after circuits in the weight room, and gamboling with his dog) into the computer and tiling his image as permanent wallpaper brighten up late nights of response papers and lab reports...
...second half, the situation appeared to brighten for the Crimson. Its superior midfield play kept the ball at the Huskies' end of the field for a majority of the half. Unfortunately, Harvard was not able to turn these opportunities into goals. Although the Crimson out-shot Northeastern 15-7, it did not force Northeastern's goalie to make many difficult saves...