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...students said that last weekend's monitoring was more intense than usual. Police officers hid in the Mather parking lot and confiscated several students' fake identification cards, said Ian Stern...
...consolation, we now have another architectural event: the Inn at Harvard, so assertively obnoxious that the new Busch-Reisinger looks Gropius-like by comparison. A regular Bulkie Roll of a building with fake balconies and window frames, it spreads to fill a once-welcome open space. It is embellished with triangles, half-moons and every postmodern cliche except dollar signs...
...even when researchers can find no scientific basis for an alternative treatment, it still may be effective. This is the famed placebo (Latin for "I will please") effect. To most laymen and most conventional doctors, placebo means "fake" -- phony medicine doled out to please a whiny patient or fed to the control group in a scientific experiment. If the medicine being tested does no better than the placebo, then it's worthless, because the placebo does nothing...
...weighed for dust content. The MSHA said more than 500 companies at 847 mines had tampered with the filters. Civil penalties may reach a record $7 million. Last week 33 coal companies, 41 executives and two consultants agreed to plead guilty to conspiring with a testing laboratory to create fake results...
...place is a lot livelier than that. It is a seething agglomeration of jazz halls, Zydeco joints, R.-and-B. clubs, great restaurants, all-night bars -- and, of course, Mardi Gras. Where else would a city's business and social leaders don sequined costumes, ostrich plumes, masks and fake beards, and climb atop 20-ft.-high floats and throw trinkets to the masses...