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They may well be gnawing their knuckles over that decision right now because Rashid's conquest of the realm of product design is all but complete. A lush and suitably worshipful retrospective of his work hits bookstores this month. There was a crowd around anything with his stamp on it--including stools, chess sets and storage units--at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York City in May. More than 2 million North Americans are throwing their rubbish into a receptacle he designed, while 750,000 or so park their rears on one of his cheapo plastic chairs...
...already collected his ration and loaded it onto his cart. He was sweaty, dirty and angry. He came early, but it was hot even at 8 a.m. First, he pressed through a crowd of men to hand his ticket to a clerk behind a chicken-wire grill. The clerk stamped his ticket and Abu Amira jockeyed at another window for the second stamp required for him to collect his meager ration for the month. His battered donkey cart was loaded with enough milk, oil, sugar and rice to last his family of five for a week. A few yards away...
...Harvard owns too much, and Harvard develops too much,” says resident Greg Keating. “I don’t see why they have to put their Crimson stamp everywhere...
...University’s physical presence. And the efforts to draw together Harvard’s fractious faculties under a stronger central administration have placed greater control in the hands of a visionary president. Summers was chosen as a man of action—-to leave an indelible stamp on the University by making wise use of its financial, physical and academic resources. We have no doubt that he will rise to the challenge...
...just don’t think she has the intellectual capacity to be a vice president of this organization.”) True, it is often quite satisfying to see the world in this light—to have that fleeting sense of righteousness and omnipotence while withholding our stamp of approval. But our love affair with hierarchies ends up pitting us against one another, amping up the volume on our inner critics instead of drowning them...