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...they're not supposed to. Runway designs are a form of wearable artwork; the emphasis is on beauty and innovation, not functionality. "It's fun to do these really extravagant, exciting runway pieces," says George Simonton, a fashion designer and professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology, "but very few of the truly wacko designs are meant to be worn." In other words, missing armholes aren't an oversight; they're a statement...
...Economic growth] has done its work for us," says Richard Wilkinson, professor of medical epidemiology at the University of Nottingham, whose work has shown that wealth equality is far more important to population well-being than overall wealth. "We have reached the point, after millennia, in which raising material living standards is no longer the best way of improving quality of life. In wealthy countries, we now need to turn our attention to other factors, such as the quality of our social interactions...
Summers “had an unbelievable appetite” for understanding the economics of the decisions being made, says Stein, who has known Summers since the mid-80s when Stein first began as an associate professor at the Business School...
...Stein] really was the right man at the right time,” says University of Chicago Business School Professor Anil K. Kashyap, who has been working with Stein for more than 20 years. “I give the President and Larry Summers a lot of credit. They convinced him to uproot his life and his teaching to go down there...
Stein’s return hardly marks the end of the line for Harvard’s presence in Washington. Yesterday, Business School Professor David S. Scharfstein began work with the administration. Scharfstein could not be reached for comment over the last week...