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...arsonists, larcenists, and on unannounced Saturday morning visits, Mom. Luckily, we have a system that makes it easy to keep out unwanted visitors. First, campus-wide swipe card access ensures that only Harvard affiliates can get into student houses. And second, thanks to the vastly underappreciated invention of the lock and key, only we and our roommates can walk right into our personal suites. Well, we, our roommates, and Dorm Crew. The beauty of Harvard’s easy two-step system is that as long as everyone sticks to it, it works. Problems arise—such as last...
...There are also significant Shi'ite minorities in other Muslim states, including Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and Pakistan. Crucially, Shi'ites outnumber Sunnis in the Middle East's major oil-producing regions--not only Iran and Iraq but also eastern Saudi Arabia. But outside Iran, Sunnis have historically had a lock on political power, even where Shi'ites have the numerical advantage. (The one place where the opposite holds true is modern Syria, which is mostly Sunni but since 1970 has been ruled by a small Shi'ite subsect known as the Alawites.) Sunni rulers maintained their monopoly on power...
...little before 7:30 p.m., Kunihiko Miyamoto was busy dealing with the day's crisis - helping a housewife who'd lost the key to her bicycle lock. It was the standard dramatic police work for the 53-year-old Miyamoto, who manned a station on a commuter train line in Tokiwadai in northern Tokyo. Miyamoto was the sort of police officer who helped elderly pedestrians pass the train crossing, and kept an eye out for the drunken salarymen who, buzzed from a night of office imbibing, threatened to take headers off the platform. "He held the safety of the people...
...housing, CHL’s subcommittee on gender-neutral housing recently formulated a list of all the suites in each of the 12 residential Houses that are suitable for gender-neutral living. The basic criterion for a gender-neutral suite calls for each bedroom within it to have a lock on its door. All of the Houses already have suites that fulfill this rule. Though gender-neutral housing is currently available for students who identify as transsexual, the College is trying to “regularize that process,” according to Associate Dean for Residential Life Suzy...
...infiltrated boardrooms and fashion houses, culturally-black forms of expression have failed to share an equal space with the dictates of mainstream conservative dress. Black hair style has been at the forefront of this tension. While the most accomplished politician may don a strikingly conservative suit, the decision to lock, braid, or straighten hair heightens awareness of blackness, eliciting a variety of reactions. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is praised for her chic designer wardrobe and swift leadership style, but public perception would certainly have been different had her hair not been straightened and instead worn in an afro...