Drew Faust's Drapes Sometimes the Boston Globe verges on self-parody.

Consider, for example, this editorial about Deval Patrick's costly office redecoration. It begins:

QUESTION: When Drew Gilpin Faust moves into Elmwood, the historic, three-story home of Harvard presidents, will anyone howl if she replaces the drapes?

Why then has there been such a hullabaloo over Deval Patrick's redecoration of his office in another late 18th - century architectural treasure -- the Massachusetts State House?

Some of the answers are obvious: Harvard is private; the government of Massachusetts is public....

If the public/private distinction here is so obvious—which it is—why does the writer even bring Drew Faust into the question?

The Globe seems to be implying that people are mad because it's a man who's redecorating his office, while everyone would expect a woman to do the same. How politically correct of the paper—and how silly.

No, people are mad because one of the new governor's opening moves is to blow a bunch of money on new furniture, a new Caddy, and an expensive chief of staff for his wife.

In a time of concerns about budget deficits at Harvard, if Drew Faust spent a bunch of money refurbishing the presidential mansion and got herself a new Cadillac, that wouldn't go over so well either.....  ¶ 9:08 AM