Damn, if only this story couldn't have broken around the time of Lawrence Summer's dumb-ass comments:

"It really just struck me as a great idea, given the state of our apartment and given how expensive it is to buy all these tools," Mr. Novy said, watching two women from a professional cleaning service contracted by DormAid scrub and scour. For $85.57, they not only cleaned but also placed a Lindt chocolate truffle on the pillow of Mr. Novy's lumpy futon.

Oh, well: Dowd can somehow hook this into the debate over female op-ed writers. ("Some feel that women aren't equipped to wield a pen like a sword. But apparently at Harvard, some are wielding brooms and mops like pros.")

At Harvard, an Unseemly Display of Wealth or Merely a Clean Room? [NYT]