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PARIS: Princess Diana, her boyfriend and their chauffeur were killed late Saturday night when their car slammed into a concrete pillar while being pursued by paparazzi...
...here's another tip for anyone contemplating the old stop-sign prank: don't do the sign removing yourself. Call yourself Superior Sign Relocation Inc., and hire others to do the manual labor so you can always point proudly to your contribution as a pillar of the economy and a creator of jobs. And if you wonder how you'll make the money to meet payroll, that's easy: you'll sell the purloined signs, of course, to the millions of homeowners who, like so many of my law-abiding, homeowning neighbors, favor them as decorations for their basement...
...Anthony Lewis '48 is both a Harvard institution and a pillar of journalistic integrity. Author, New York Times columnist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, Lewis will also deliver the Harvard Law School (HLS) Class Day speech today...
...problem would be selling de-alerting to the Russians. They are more reliant on nuclear weapons than ever because their conventional forces have fallen apart. And the weapons of mass destruction have a weightier meaning and symbolism to Russia today: they are the pillar on which a proud nation rests its claim to superpower status. With their army, navy and air force in disrepair, the Russian leaders are very unlikely to respond with smiles and nods to suggestions that they disable, even temporarily, their terrifying nuclear forces. Besides, no one is trying to persuade them...
Each of the four players is equally important in supporting, pillar-like, a corner of the drama: The Mother, Amanda Wingfield (Margaret J. Barker '98); her son, Tom, the narrator (Brett Egan '99); his sister, Laura, who is slightly crippled (Dana Gotlieb '97); and Jim O'Connor, the Gentleman Caller whose visit marks the central Event of the play (Padriac O'Reilly...