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Mitigating a long-standing gripe among students, U.S. News & World Report elevated the Harvard Business School (HBS) from No. 5 to No. 2 in its new graduate-school rankings...

Author: By Michael T. Jalkut, | Title: B-School Takes Second In U.S. News Rankings | 3/1/1997 | See Source »

Testimonies to the trauma of studying appear prominently in the jumble of graffiti. "Exams truly suck," reads one. "Harvard sucks," says another. And, there's the more specific gripe, "I hate Lamont...

Author: By Malka A. Older and Elizabeth S. Zuckerman, S | Title: Lamont Graffiti Enlightens, Confuses | 2/8/1997 | See Source »

...animals and creatures in Mos Eisley, are a little out of place because of their polished look, but they do add to the movie. For those "Star Wars" purists, such changes hardly corrupt the original when one considers that Lucas wanted these effects in the first place. My only gripe with the $10 million overhaul is with the new THX digitized sound, which raises every sound to the same fevered pitch, from the lowest whisper to the loudest blast...

Author: By Marshall I. Lewy, | Title: STAR WARS | 2/6/1997 | See Source »

...gripe today is with--surprise, surprise--University Health Services. Now, let me preface these remarks by saying that my experience with UHS has generally been good. I like my primary care physician a lot, and I usually receive decent treatment from other aspects of the organization. But last week, suffering from a cold so bad I could barely think straight, I walked through the doors of the after-hours urgent-care unit and into a bureaucratic nightmare funnier and more disturbing than any Saturday Night Live sketch I have seen in the past year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FUN AT UHS | 12/14/1996 | See Source »

...enveloped in pleasant temperatures, and during the majority of the year when it is freezing, students will be inside reading. Harvard's discretionary use of its weather control power guarantees that the administration's ploys will not be discovered and students will stay in their rooms and gripe over GPAs or the most recent U.S. News and World Report rankings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Controls the Weather | 12/14/1996 | See Source »

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