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...still is the ease with which our fellow schools have introduced such measures. To our knowledge, their devices all seem so much more sensitive, and unlocking doors doesn’t require nearly as much effort. Our cards make entrance more like a chore rather than something to enjoy. Fraught with insecurity, we are left to wonder: Is there something wrong with our cards? Or are we just using them wrong? The downright impotence of these new cards has proven highly frustrating. Perhaps if we could pierce a hole in the card for a keychain ring, easy access would mitigate...
...many LGBT alumni remember. And it affords alumni themselves a chance to fashion a new set of memories, hopefully more positive than the ones they currently hold. It represents an opportunity for both Harvard and its LGBT alumni to reconnect and rebuild a relationship that has been so fraught in the past...
...resources, you could always launch your own counterattack: Barack Obama, frustrated with the false rumors being spread about his background and religious history, created a website in June called Fight The Smears to debunk them. But taking matters into one's own hands can be fraught. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales was notoriously outed in 2005 for attempting to whitewash his own entry on the site (Wiki contributors noted that he deleted references to his Wikipedia co-founder, Larry Sanger, as well as to a search site he founded that included adult content). Now a monitoring program called WikiWatcher aims...
...recent decades, people around the world have moved en masse to big cities near water. The population of Miami-Dade County in Florida was about 150,000 in the 1930s, a decade fraught with severe hurricanes. Since then, the population of Miami-Dade County has rocketed...
...weekend charter flights between China and Taiwan for the first time, opened Taiwan to mainland tourists, eased restrictions on Taiwan investment on the mainland and approved measures that will allow mainland investors to buy Taiwan stocks. Yet the road towards his ultimate goal - peaceful relations with Beijing - is still fraught with political challenges. Ahead of his first international diplomatic trip, Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou, 58, spoke with TIME's Zoher Abdoolcarim and Michael Schuman on relations with China, the economy and his domestic political problems...