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MOSCOW: History is a cruel and capricious mistress, a fact of which nobody ought to be more aware than Pizza Hut poster boy Mikhail Gorbachev. The man once feted as the visionary whose reforms brought down the Iron Curtain has been reduced to a prop in a fast food...
...produced this much enthusiasm." She's talking about the visitors--some of them doing their holiday shopping--who wait for the gallery to open each day. Darren Check, a law student at Temple University, picked out a $5 skyline for his apartment and said, "This costs less than a poster." David Rosenberg, an attorney, and his wife Lucia, who owns a small business, bought three paintings. Donna Benner, a talk-show producer, was back for her seventh time and had already bought 20 pieces. "I have kids, and it's a way to introduce them...
...never go free. A former electrician in Beijing, Wei first gained notoriety with a 1978 essay advocating that Deng Xiaoping broaden his campaign to carry out "Four Modernizations"--of industry, agriculture, science and the military--to include democracy as a "fifth modernization." The next year, after writing a wall poster that accused Deng of being a dictator, Wei was arrested...
...right. PBHA has been most vital at the times when all students have felt that they could work there and argue peaceably with one another over how best to improve our little community at Harvard, and the larger one beyond it. Whether they teach a class of 5th graders, poster for a rally, find housing for a welfare recipient, or chain themselves to a statue in protest, I hope that they will act on behalf of others without necessarily feeling branded as liberal, conservative, activist, or anything they don't necessarily want...
...which is another image-enhancing boost for Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, who is still steadfastly refusing to rule out a presidential run in 2000. But even more beneficial than the statistics was the GOP poster boy's first real exposure to a national youth audience this weekend ? as the host of ?Saturday Night Live.? Who knows, dressing up in drag (again) and taking part in a boxing match with Janet Reno might come to be remembered as the Giuliani equivalent of playing...