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May 9, 2011

Cover Story

Home Design Spring 2011: Extreme Décor

Interior ideas taken to all-encompassing extremes.

On the Cover: The painted canvas bedroom of Sylvia Heisel and Scott Taylor, created with interior designer Doug Meyer. Photograph by Dean Kaufman for New York Magazine.

Features

Our Lady of Malawi

Kabbalah teaches that only giving will bring a soul out of the darkness. So Madonna planned a splendid gift for an impoverished African nation.
The University Has No Clothes

The notion that a college degree is essentially worthless has become one of the year’s most fashionable ideas.
Would Any of These Guys Buy Jimmy Hoffa a Drink?

Sandy Pope was the daughter of an investment banker. She quit school and became a trucker. Now she wants to run the Teamsters.

Intelligencer

Culture

Columns

Home Run, Selig!

Contrary to his hapless image, baseball’s chief is the most effective commissioner in sports.

Agenda

Chang Reveals Plans for Old Milk Bar Space

An all-duck lunch menu and full bar.

Strategist

Departments

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