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...surprising that Harvard’s social scene, like most other aspects of Harvard life, is different from other schools. What is particularly striking to me, however, is that there is no middle ground. Your choices at Harvard pretty much consist of either lavish extravagance or hot and sticky dorm room experiences that require hour-long showers at the end of the night...
...response to criticism, drugmakers have been tightening their gift-giving code. Since the early 1990s, they have prohibited such perks as lavish trips for top prescribers, and in 2004 they stopped paying for doctors to attend conferences or spouses to attend industry-sponsored dinners at restaurants. The American Medical Association limits gift value to around $100 per gift and stipulates that all gifts, such as informational dinners and free drug samples, should benefit patients. Dr. Bob Goodman, a New York City internist who founded No Free Lunch in 1999 to combat the practice of accepting gifts, says doctors should push...
...year's hot -- and hot air -- medium. But mere radio couldn't contain these two word warriors. Limbaugh reworked his sprightly right-wing monologues into a potent TV series and two top-selling books. Stern, whose autobiography was also a chart topper, planned to end the year with a lavish, lurid pay- cable special. If the Fox Network has any money left after its N.F.L. spending binge, Stern could also become a late-night TV host -- hence an invigorating earsore at both ends...
...Most Lavish Home-Shopping Spree The QVC network's $10.5 billion bid to buy Paramount Communications. Paramount had hoped to merge with TV conglomerate Viacom. But QVC's Barry Diller, who can build grudges into empires, vowed to take over his old studio by wooing or warring. The courts, and finally Paramount's board, agreed to give him the chance...
...Four Piano Trios The Lanier Trio (Gasparo). The Dvorak piano trios are four of the glories of the chamber-music literature; the sorrow and the pity is that they are not known to a wider audience. The Lanier Trio -- William Preucil, violin; Dorothy Lewis, cello; and Cary Lewis, piano -- lavish impeccable ensemble and golden tone on each piece...