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Whenever critics complain about the high cost of prescription drugs, the pharmaceutical industry's standard defense is that companies have to plow so much money into researching innovative new medicines. But a recently released report from the Government Accountability Office casts doubt on that rationale. Yes the industry is spending heavily on R&D, the GAO found, but it turns out big pharma isn't actually generating such a good return on their investments...
...that, while perhaps not the banes of civilization, still sort of suck. We believe that these small and humble requests will profoundly alter life in Cambridge, and provide a foundation upon which a Harvard revolution can stand strong. Or, they’ll just be 10 fewer things to complain about. In either case, without further ado, we present our annual Christmahanakwanzakah Wish List...
...little disappointing. But if I complain about anything in my life coming from the background I came from, it comes under the heading "high-class problems of poor little rich girl." Most little girls have dads who work. I saw my father maybe once a year, and so my joke was that I saw him more on TV than at home...
...Harvard’s Gray says that it’s up to customers to determine which stores will succeed in the Square.“There are a lot of people who are upset when a landmark leaves the Square, but some people complain about those places closing but haven’t spent a dollar there in forty years,” he says. “The people who don’t patronize the stores, their opinion hardly rings true to me.”—Staff writer Shifra B. Mincer can be reached...
London has no shortage of Russian heavyweights. Roman Abramovich, Britain's second richest person, made his killing in oil, bought the powerhouse Chelsea Football Club in 2003 and has spent so heavily on top soccer players that some team bosses complain they can't compete. Boris Berezovsky, a close ally of former Russian President Boris Yeltsin, made his $1.5 billion mainly in cars and oil and was instrumental in making Putin the heir to Yeltsin. But his major preoccupation now is his loathing of the Russian President--one reason he employed Litvinenko, who accused Putin of blowing up apartment buildings...