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...wallpaper and textiles, the pair set to work creating their own wall coverings and textiles. Their company, twenty2, with headquarters in Brooklyn, N.Y., produces collections that illustrate their sophisticated yet playful take on color palettes and patterns. The papers and textiles are all hand-printed, and customers can even select colors to match their own design schemes...
...Central, Davis, and even Inman Squares are heaps more exciting than Harvard, but the latter’s flavor has stubbornly held out at a select few locales...
Furthermore, giving patients choice in their mental health care would significantly improve the outcome of their therapy. A British research institute last March concluded that giving mental health vouchers that allow patients to select their treatment would “improve services and ultimately help to improve our mental health.” Chávez needs to seriously consider some of these less coercive options before forcibly drugging some of our fellow adult citizens and setting a terrible precedent for the rest of the country...
...current structure for hiring new faculty is largely to blame. Departments play a major role in selecting candidates for tenure, and only departments—not interdisciplinary committees like social studies—can hire permanent faculty. This leads to two problems. First, departments often select professors with similar specialties. This leads to concentrations of outstanding professors in some subspecialties, who in turn attract other top scholars and top graduate students. While such a strategy can be beneficial for developing fledgling departments and groups of experts on key topics, it has the potential to leave tremendous voids in which Harvard...
...like Isaiah go where he’s gone despite his extremely limited background in terms of what it takes to go to a real select college, it’s inspiring,” Murphy says. “It’s harder for those guys. Why is it harder? Because they don’t have as many breaks, they don’t have $200-an-hour tutors, all those things...