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...students' point--all along has been that giving all Harvard students access to an entryway door does not diminish the degree to which that door can be considered locked. If anything, because we will be naturally both more likely to question students entering without ID and less likely to prop doors for friends or pizza delivery people, universal access would in no way make the first of those two doors any less secure...
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...
...While disruptive in the short term, the firm's closure may ultimately pave the way for economic recovery in that country, which tends to prop up financial institutions that are saddled with debt. It was billions of dollars in illegal debt that ultimately sank Yamaichi Securities. If the Japanese government is willing to let it go under, it may signal a positive policy shift. And although the Tokyo stock exchange dropped 5 percent on the news, followed closely by drops in Hong Kong and South Korea, it seems Japan's economic woes are unlikely to spread worldwide. The National Association...
About that severed head--no Roscian horror here. The thing in its net bears an unhappy resemblance to a holiday ham. But the over-the-top quantity of fake gore painted onto Agave and her costume helps to close the gap between prop and reality...
Natalia Mishkutionok, a 1992 Olympic gold medalist, and Craig Shepard altered their routine by removing the prop for later performances after an objection by one of the event's sponsors...