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Let’s be realistic: even the weakest member of the Harvard Taekwondo Club could beat you up. After all, the club has been training students to spar, kick, and break boards for ten years now. It has even given some members an opportunity to fight (sort of) in a zero-gravity environment...
...relationship between China and the U.S. may be the world's most complicated. While the two economies desperately need each other - China relies on exports to the U.S. to drive growth while the U.S. requires investments from China to finance its giant deficits - Beijing and Washington nevertheless routinely spar over a wide range of sensitive issues. The U.S. has accused China of manipulating its currency to unfairly promote exports, while China has openly called for the replacement of the U.S. dollar as the world's premier currency. But with so much at stake, the two nations have tried to keep...
...Octomom case proved that private regulation alone has never been sufficient," says Debora Spar, president of Barnard College and author of The Baby Business, a book about the fertility industry. Both Spar and Schneider say the CDC should maintain a mandatory national registry...
...debate’s moderator, Jim Lehrer of PBS, forcefully prodded the presidential hopefuls to embrace the free flowing debate format that would allow them to spar directly with one another...
Students braved the drizzle and gathered in various locations across campus Friday night to watch a presidential debate that almost didn’t happen. Viewers seemed excited about the opportunity to see the candidates spar, packing various locales to watch the broadcast with their fellow students, and came away with mixed reactions. “I thought Barack was better in the beginning and McCain was better in the end,” said Jerome M. Tullo ’12, who caught the debate at the Institute of Politics. “Obama was more logical and McCain...