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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...

Author: By Julie R. Barzilay, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kicking Ass and Taking Names for Ten Years | 1/14/2010 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the China-U.S. Trade Dispute Is Heating Up | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: As Egg Donations Mount, So Do Health Concerns | 3/31/2009 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Katherine A. Petti and Abby D. Phillip, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: BSA Event Rings in Historic Debate | 9/28/2008 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Anna S. Roth, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Assemble Across Campus to Watch Obama and McCain Duke It Out | 9/28/2008 | See Source »

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