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...survey design and data collection. Perhaps more importantly, emphasis on interdisciplinary work helps create a culture of collaboration that prevents faculty from feeling that their work must fall into narrow and in some cases arbitrary departmental categories. Harvard has long hued to the mantra of “every tub on its own bottom”—that is that each faculty, school, and department is largely autonomous. But with the growing importance of interdisciplinary research, that model has serious limitations. It’s refreshing that the University is working to create a more viable system...
...Each school is typically in charge of raising its own funds for financial aid—part of Harvard’s “every tub on its own bottom” philosophy. As a result, schools whose graduates tend to go on to more lucrative careers have more robust financial aid programs...
...Sleep in a Tub of Lard and Look 20 Years Younger...
...focus of a lively debate about the aesthetic value of avant-garde cuisine. Suddenly art critics and foodies alike are scrutinizing the gin fizz that manages to be simultaneously hot and cold, the edible paper dotted with flowers, the frozen Parmesan "air" that comes packed in a Styrofoam tub, and asking, Is it art--or is it dinner...
...happy and fat this summer, I ought to be off saving the world—or at least cleaning my plate on behalf of all those starving children in Africa. But I can’t even manage that: Every time I open the refrigerator, out tumbles another Tupperware tub full of leftovers. How can I justify that kind of overabundance, that heavy plunk of plastic hitting the kitchen floor? Am I allowed a carefree and extravagant and totally unconstructive summer for myself—what a sympathetic (and perhaps enabling?) friend deems, a “season of grace?...