Perhaps the most patient man in Washington, Merrick Garland is not likely to be late for his appointment with senators on Monday. He has, after all, been waiting five years for this moment. Garland would now be a supreme court justice if Barack Obama had his way in 2016. But Senate Republicans refused to consider him then and Garland is now Joe Biden’s pick for attorney general. Any sense of poetic justice might soon dissipate at his.
People with mental illnesses in jails around the country are routinely dying in horrific ways and under preventable circumstances, a Virginian-Pilot investigation has found.
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Abraham J. Twerski, Hasidic rabbi, psychiatrist and author, dies at 90 news services, and staff reports Abraham J. Twerski, a Hasidic rabbi and psychiatrist who championed treatment for substance abuse and was the author of more than 80 books on subjects both spiritual and scientific, died Jan. 31 at a hospital in Jerusalem. He was 90. He had covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, his family told the Associated Press. Dr. Twerski said he found an “exquisite harmony” between his medical and religious callings and was equally at home in the rabbinical world of Torah and Talmud study and the medical world as a practicing psychiatrist. It was a rare pairing that earned him respect in both the insular ultra-Orthodox Jewish world and wider American society.
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Retail Profile: Kensington A discussion of furniture design trends that also examines the relationship between form, function and what consumers will be looking for to meet their home furnishings needs as we exit the pandemic.
For this installment of the Design & Designer series, Furniture World interviewed SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design) professor Sheila Edwards and Fred Spector, SCAD’s Associate Chair of Furniture Design. Spector is also the founder of Frederic Spector Design Studio, a design firm specializing in commercial and residential furniture, lighting and tabletop products. Spector did his graduate work in industrial design at the Rhode Island School of Design and studied furniture design at University of the Arts in Philadelphia. He interacts with students in a number of ways. As well as teaching studio design classe