Consistency Without Cut Elimination
  In this note we will show how to get consistency for first order classical logic, in a purely syntactic way, without going through cut elimination. The procedure is very simple and it uses the calculus of structures in an essential way. It also shows how finitaryness (in the sense of finite choice of premises for each rule) is actually a triviality (contrarily to what one would guess from textbooks). 
Kai Bruennler and Alessio Guglielmi