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...resigning the presidency. Harvard’s trustees should waste no time in confirming her heir apparent: the Harvard Undergraduate Council (UC).Any doubts as to the UC’s competence to hold Harvard’s highest office have surely been quashed this week, during its teapot-bound war of attrition with administrators over the UC’s almost-legal practice of paying for underage students’ booze with money funneled to its bank account by the College. UC leaders have seized the opportunity to prove their worth as mature, tactful participants in Harvard?...
...much talent in the global market. It's a matter of differentiating between good and great design. Morris had it right: great design is that magical confluence of beauty and function. But there's another almost intangible element, which is the emotion an object or a building or a teapot can evoke in an individual (in today's market that feeling, ideally, is desire). Think of the stylish plasticity of the iPod, or the silly humor of Michael Graves' now famous Alessi teakettle, or the nostalgia of a surfboard-shaped Marc Newson aluminum table. Great design is both astonishing...
Whether or not the controversy is “a tempest in a teapot,” the issues are clear. Professional standards of ethical behavior are how we archaeologists explain to the world at large what archaeology is about. They are precisely what separate us from collectors of unprovenanced antiquities, both morally and scientifically. The trade in illicit cultural property is increasing annually, with untold destruction of historical context. All archaeologists have a professional responsibility to bring to public attention those who countenance and encourage looting by purchasing unprovenanced items in the market. The antiquities market is deeply intertwined...
Members of the Harvard community have taken a decidedly different stance on the issue. The assistant to the head of the Harvard program, Charles G. Haberl, described the controversy as “a tempest in a teapot...
...ZEISEL A sensuous, multifunctional shape with a pedigreed past is reborn. Originally created in 1952 by the world-renowned Hungarian ceramics designer Eva Zeisel, the Classic Century teapot makes a comeback in a creamy neutral. Zeisel, considered one of the foremost designers of the 20th century, created sculptural pieces with rounded curves, arches, teardrops and wave motifs. Out of production for many years, during which it became a collector's item, this timeless piece of high-fired earthenware was resurrected exclusively for Crate & Barrel...