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...Cornell University asked a distinguished graduate to address an alumni gathering, policymakers for the U.S. and China knew they had a first-class hot potato on their hands. The invitee was Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui, whose government is unrecognized by most of the world thanks to China's strenuous efforts to keep it isolated. Could Lee visit a onetime ally that cut off relations 16 years ago? The issue seemed strictly academic as long as Washington upheld its policy of barring top-level Taiwan officials from the country. Then last week, Bill Clinton backed down: under pressure from Congress...
DIED. FARLEY, 16, faithful and beloved dog of the Patterson family; of a heart attack triggered by his heroic but strenuous rescue of the family's youngest child, April, from a rain-swollen river; somewhere in Canada...
City Step is a year-long program that attempts to convey the importance of self-expression, unity and community involvement to Cambridge kids. It is a difficult and strenuous effort for the Harvard volunteers. The difficulties that City Step volunteers encounter are many. The time commitment is one, but so is dealing with the problem of uniting students from many different public schools in the Cambridge area. The kids don't always get along, and the initial challenge comes in attempting to make all of the kids friends and have them trust each other. The task is formidable but teachers...
...rather than try to assimilate this new finding, most of their colleagues are proclaiming that it must be a mistake. No one can explain what Lauer and Postman might have done wrong, despite strenuous efforts to do so. The analysis is incorrect, they say, simply because it doesn't fit in with any existing theory of how the cosmos works. "Listen," fumes Lauer, who is stationed at the National Optical Astronomy Observatories in Tucson, Arizona, "we knew this was a shocking result. That's why we spent over a year trying to debunk it ourselves before we went public...
...selection of this version of womanhood as worthy of caricature, serves to sustain outdated modes of thinking--where women are objectified, consigned to the margins--thinking which is clearly at odds with Harvard's strenuous repositioning of itself as a culturally inclusive meritocracy which is responsive to gender concerns...