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Norman Lear hired Borowitz for CBS after the producer met him his senior year at a Lampoon function. "I think it was a gut reaction," said Borowitz of Lear's job offer...
Before I became a Harvard student, one of my best friends, already a student here, told me that the hardest thing about this place had nothing to do with exams or roommates or even Harvard-style, gut-wrenching, hair-tearing love affairs...
...standard four point scale. Straight A's from Harvard undergraduates are virtually unheard of, Geraghty notes. The average undergraduate GPA at the Law School is 3.5, but courses receive almost as much scrutiny as grades in the admissions process. Geraghty studies the transcripts to weed out the gut-seekers from the achievers, and she says she's familiar with the course offerings at 20 to 30 schools...
...Piano-jumping, speaker-climbing stunts onstage, along with dancing that was camp enough to get anyone busted in a back alley. Songs that sounded like nonsense (Tutti Frutti, Long Tall Sally, Slippin 'and Slidin ') but whose beat seemed to hint of unearthly pleasures centered somewhere between the gut and the gutter. Ooh! My soul...
...proceedings was a study released by Atlanta's Centers for Disease Control, which concluded that soldiers exposed to Agent Orange had no greater risk of having babies with birth defects than did the general population. Said Woody Willis, head of the Nam Vets of Georgia organization: "My gut reaction is that they're trying to sell us down the river like they have in the past...