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Like the reliable erection its new product promised, Pfizer's stock had risen 21% in the previous two months. Some urologists bought rubber stamps so they could churn out prescriptions, and equally excited patients booked advance appointments. Despite all that, Viagra, the world's most popular prescription party drug, didn't have much of a party the day the FDA gave its much-anticipated O.K. to sildenafil citrate. That's because giant pharmaceutical companies--even ones that get a license from the government to print money in blue-pill form--aren't really party places. "We had a nice dinner...
...believe the cops started the real violence, however. Early in the day, when the delegates couldn't get to the convention center through the ring of activists, the police sprayed gas and shot rubber bullets at people engaging in civil disobedience by linking themselves together with pipes and locks. That was the first violence, although the media focused more on young white guys in black ski masks who broke store windows later in the day. While I disapprove in principle of property destruction, I've often wondered whether we would have got as much press as we did without...
...PULL IT OFF? Why not? They both have that rubber-face thing going on. Thurber would have approved...
...surrender the stage for the shoes. So he did. His first foray into fashion was a collaboration with the groovy British designer Ossie Clark in 1971. The shoes?with straps of green suede and fake cherries?were perfect. The heels?each six or seven inches of unsupported rubber crepe?were not. The models wearing them bounced and buckled down the runway at Clark's fashion show in the Royal Court. But never mind. The It-girls of the day?Bianca Jagger, Marisa Berenson?loved them despite the wobble. If the exhibition lacks anything, it's the stories like this...
...full Faculty prepares to discuss Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby’s preregistration proposal at tomorrow’s Faculty meeting, we hope it will be an occasion for thoughtful, serious consideration of the proposal in its entirety—not just a rubber stamp. The Office of Undergraduate Education (OUE) claims preregistration could lead to far-reaching improvements in multiple aspects of student life—from shortening the coursepack line to increasing the quality of section leaders to alleviating Harvard’s advising woes. But each of these expansive claims ought to be independently...