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...distinctive black-and-white sweater-striped pill was supposed to make millions of Americans thin--and its manufacturer rich. But a year after the drug called Redux was approved by the Food and Drug Administration for sale in the U.S., the hot new diet pill has fallen short on both counts. At $200 million a year, sales are flat and lagging far behind the initial $1 billion-a-year expectations. Some who have taken Redux have discovered that it is not the magic melting potion they hoped it would be; others who were thinking of taking it have been frightened...
...every book that gets burnt represents a piece of lost heritage. It will cost $28 million to renovate Widener with a climate control system. To date [March 17], the University has not raised any of the money needed. We realize that the University cannot raise such money out of thin air, but for something as important to a University as its books, the money can be found. We recommend that the administration put its money where its mouth is, step up to the plate and act before Widener begins selling its books as confetti. (March...
...there is far from a territorial allotment of jobs: Carnesale and Rudenstine consult often. If Harvard weren't the wealthiest University in the world and wasn't able to afford frequent replacements, the carpet between Carnesale and Rudenstine's offices would be worn thin. Rudenstine says that the two visit each other three or four times a day and often talk on the phone...
...dessert, the finished product of the several ingredients with which I began. With its ever so thin, yet crisp, caramelized sugar top, this dessert taught me what every Harvard student should know before Commencement: the appreciation of good food is crucial to one's well-being. Ninety-eight percent of Harvard students participate in the house system. Thus, the cultivated minds that leave Harvard are often accompanied by jaded palates, palates that need nourishment and attention lest they become permanently ruined...
...Crimson was The Service News for the duration, thin but useful. The Lampoon flourished, however, with my house mate and classmate Len Bregman as principal cartoonist and cover artist. The other literary forms of the time included richly inventive graffiti ("Henry VII Is Insatiable") and the bulletin-board memos of Elliot Perkins, the with master of Lowell House, who wrote with a graceful elegance that suggested The New Yorker and the Book of Common Prayer rolled into...