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...there's no comfort in South Asia, whose leaders already know how domino-like recessions can be. First to tumble will likely be Malaysia, which was hoping for a low-interest $1 billion or $2 billion loan from its Far East financier. Fat chance of that now. And Japan itself? Prime Minister Hashimoto easily survived a no-confidence vote Friday -- but when it comes to the elections next month, all bets...
...seeking to match the weeks of conferences and the international gathering of scholars that marked the University's 300th birthday in 1936, Harvard officials sought to create a comparatively low-key "family affair" this time around. Maybe it's the domino effect, or the Statue of Liberty syndrome, or the glitz-it-up promotionalism of the Yuppie Era. Call it what you will. But my God, Dr. Frankenstein, Harvard's created a monster. And it's alive...
Take for example "The Way Things Go," a 30 minute film of chain reactions which could only have been imagined by a crazy inventor with too much time on his hands and too much space in his garage. In one fantastically long domino-like progression, a bottle of water tips to fill a cup on a see-saw, which raises a candle that ignites an explosion, sending spirals of fire to fuel the next event in an apparently endless chain...
...pulled a .45-cal. pistol from his car and ordered the gunman to the ground. "Mr. Myrick," said Woodham, "I was the guy who gave you the discount on the pizza the other night." Woodham had been hoping to make the assistant manager's program at the local Domino...
...referendum was timed to the 700-year anniversary of a William Wallace rout of the British, TIME's London Bureau Chief Barry Hillenbrand says the landmark shift is a lot closer to states' rights than revolution. "Years from now, you might be arguing that this was the first domino toward independence," he says. "But this is a lot more like block grants than anything else. There's an office in London that distributes $14 billion pounds to Scotland every year, that has to decide how much goes where. Now, the Scottish parliament will do that for itself...