Word: keys
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Much of Felix's charm comes from its wonderfully self-conscious adherence to the classic conventions of mystery novels. A few key red herrings are made painfully obvious, as are several crucial clues. A large, distinctive signet ring is referred to in detail three or four times; only a very slow-witted reader could fail to mark its significance. In the car after interviewing Mirry about Gavin's death, one policeman turns to his partner and asks significantly, in time-honored detective novel tradition, "I wonder how she knew [the murder weapon] was a spanner," since the precise murder weapon...
...affiliation with Harvard. Because students frequently need access to houses other than their own and because it is awkward to demand identification of strangers who may look like fellow students, we assume that anyone who asks us for entrance is a student or someone affiliated with the University. If key card access were universal, we would know that anyone who needed our help to enter into a house was not a student. We would thus be more willing to question a visitor's motives when she or he asked us to open a door...
Universal key card access also offers a safe haven for students who find themselves far away from their houses late at night. If students walking back to Kirkland from Mather sense that they are being followed, a universal key card would allow them to take refuge in any house along...
However, the stance of the house masters implies an indifference to the realities of Harvard life. Even without universal key card access, students can always find other students to let them into any of the houses. Preventing universal access only adds to the likelihood that mysterious, non-student wanderers will gain access. Therefore, in the interest of both convenience and safety, we ask the house masters to open their houses to all undergraduates, and we ask the administration to push the house masters towards implementing such a policy...
...this means going back to the Security Council ? as Ambassador Bill Richardson will do Thursday afternoon ? to seek stronger action. The reason for sustaining diplomatic efforts, says Fischer, is that key Gulf War allies like France and Russia still remain opposed to military action. ?The U.S. will demonstrate to the world that it has exhausted every diplomatic possibility before using force.? Then again, there can't be many steps left on that extra mile for peace...