Word: existing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bachman, "the agents of coercion seem to be doing their job." But how long can they keep the pot from boiling over? "In a society where there are mechanisms for reconciliation," says Han Dongfang, "there can be a balance of various interests. But in China that mechanism doesn't exist. And the state is confused about its role." The result is a building of tensions. "The government has a choice," says Robin Munro, the Hong Kong director of Human Rights Watch/Asia. "It can try to keep the lid on by arresting more dissidents and wait for it to blow...
...gift to Harvard College on this, my final day as a non-alum, is a solution to the two biggest problems at Harvard this year. For throughout the final quarter of my college career, two issues have dominated editorial columns across campus. First, Should Radcliffe Exist? And second, though certainly no less important, Aren't Conservative Students Oppressed...
...three years, Radcliffe has been a mystery institution that periodically issued a report on its own status, a cryptic "R" in the abbreviated name of some student group. Suddenly this year, students woke from their blissful ignorance and entered a debate over whether this nonentity should continue to non-exist. Earnest pieces on Radcliffe began to clutter the 10,000 magazines of Harvard. The Radcliffe fracas even won the ultimate mark of legitimacy, an Istitute of Politics debate in its honor...
This way, Radcliffe could continue to exist, albeit in altered from. And all those oppressed men (and a few oppressed hyperconservative women) would finally have a central location, a place to gather and discuss oppressed men's issues, a place where, at long last, they felt there belonged...
...short, there is no debate over whether Radcliffe College should exist. For all intents and purposes, it already doesn't. Radcliffe is now a library, a group of fellowships, a collection of alumnae, a label to use when necessary or convenient...