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...since succeeded where others have failed. American fast-food chains such as Popeyes Chicken & Biscuits and Dunkin' Donuts tried to establish China operations but were forced to retreat, in part because they didn't cater well enough to the palate of the Chinese consumer. By contrast, KFC has even outperformed fast-food giant McDonald's. KFC outlets outnumber Golden Arches by more than 3 to 2 in the mainland...
...contrast made for a great, big gray area. Is this team as good as it looked in Saturday night’s 4-1 win over archrival Yale? Or is it as bad as it looked in Friday’s 4-2 loss to Princeton, in which it took a 2-0 lead into the third period before it fell apart in truly agonizing fashion...
Against the Bulldogs—generally considered an above average hockey team—the Crimson (2-2-1, 2-2-1 ECAC) has been dominant. Only once in the last quarter century has Yale managed to secure a win on Harvard’s home ice. In contrast, the Crimson hasn’t beaten the perennial cellar-dwelling Tigers at Bright Hockey Center for the last four years...
...Henry, Kozlov held the stage by giving wide-eyed, comically condescending looks of delight whenever anybody said something funny or argued with him. This appealing mannerism established him as a man who was both arrogant and romantic, and served as a fascinating contrast to the scenes in which he abandoned his cheer to sob on the sofa. He also provided one of the play’s highlights in his reading of Brodie’s script; as he read, he supplied every element from steam-train noises to falsetto voices...
...contrast, the military’s current policies toward sexual minorities discriminate between individuals on the basis of criteria totally unrelated to excellence or merit. The branches of the military offer professional opportunities and financial rewards to outstanding heterosexual Harvard students even as they unleash witch hunts to purge their ranks of outstanding homosexual recruits. The gulf between Harvard’s values and the military’s bigotry makes the Solomon Amendment particularly disturbing. The Solomon Amendment uses public funds to force academic institutions into complicity with a fundamentalist moral agenda. It exploits mutually beneficial research partnerships between...