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...type-A personalities, the college is running on anti-depressants. Hordes of social advocacy groups exist at Harvard to save its undergraduates from depressing, unrewarding, teetering-on-the-edge-of-serious-mental-breakdown lives. Room 13 will serve students cookies and talk stuff out; Eating Concerns Hotline & Outreach (ECHO) is around to help those students who can’t bring themselves to eat the cookies. But what these social advocacy groups may fail to realize—or perhaps choose not to acknowledge—is that gloom is en vogue for a reason: happy people are boring. Harvard...
...down the politicians-are-so-lame road, it's worth noting that every once in a while, there's a signal moment, like Bill Clinton on Arsenio, when candidates catch up to the communication culture. With the viral success of the Dean campaign and the echo chamber of blogs, the 2004 cycle was full of such moments. In 2008, be prepared for the next stage, a combination of encounters with the future and the past. And what they will have in common is a personal touch. "From now on," says Republican National Committee (RNC) chairman Ken Mehlman, "a smart candidate...
Bohemian Modern: Living in Silver Lake (Regan Books) Since the 1970s, the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles has been the funky alternative to West Hollywood. Architect Barbara Bestor includes beautiful photographs of local establishments like Sunset Junction, Atwater and Echo Park...
...anyone can do luxury. Haute femme, however, requires a more irreverent touch. It is as much about what is omitted as what is included. Recent hotels that echo the gospel include Jonathan Adler's Parker Palm Springs, styled to resemble the rambling estate of a madcap aunt, and Christian Lacroix's Hôtel du Petit Moulin in Paris, with suites decked out in couture illustrations and a wild mélange of texture and color. What all these disparate projects have in common is an aversion to the white-box mentality. "I like white, and you need neutral things," says Wearstler...
...with a capacity of 450, Bronzefield was designed specifically for women. That means brightly-painted walls, Matisse prints hanging around the place and a row of potted trees in the main hall. But no amount of magnolia yellow can cover the stale smoke in the air, or the hollow echo as voices bounce off concrete bricks, or the cold clunk of heavy keys in steel doors. "You only see us laughing and playing around, but this is an awful place," says Bronwen, 34, in on pickpocketing charges and playing Chicago's prosecutor and detective. "The show takes my mind...