This week's court-enforced auction of a hulking concrete pile in the heart of Prague belonging to one of them, the International Union of Students, was halted amid squabbles among its dozens of creditors.

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Nearby is a pile of concrete samples littering the floor beside the Mickey Mouse dolls and other bric-a-brac.

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Rescue workers were seen clambering over a pile of concrete which was all that remained of the emergency response headquarters.

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In an effort to mimic the soft exterior of a real bed, Mr. Fischer coated one of the bed sculptures with white paint but then interrupted the smooth surface by pouring a pile of real concrete over it, weighing down one side of the sculpture's surface.

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Pile: long heavy section of timber, concrete or metal, driven into the earth or seabed as support for another structure.

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