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...very least, this justification for the Fay Prize's single-sex status is no more tenuous than the justification for maintaining the Frothingham's prize criteria of "manliness." In fact, by targeting the Fay Prize before deciding to reconsider the Frothingham, the administration revealed an intent colored more by institutional rivalry than gender equality. The Crimson staff's intent, to eliminate sexism everywhere, is more noble, but in this case is clearly misguided...
Graduate and undergraduate relations in the A.D. have been notoriously tenuous, especially since Jan. 20, 1999 when the club closed to non-members, setting off a series of guest policy changes in many of Harvard's eight all-male final clubs...
...Sunshine Policy" of reconciliation with the North - the meeting's significance goes way beyond Seoul's domestic politicking. After all, no Western-allied leader has ever even met Kim Jong-Il, whose famine-stricken but armed-to-the-teeth state periodically threatens to disrupt the region's tenuous stability with such unpredictable provocations as test-firing a long-range missile over Japan...
...connections to the Hasty Pudding Show," he tells FM, after long contemplation. "In retrospect, my participation with the Hasty Pudding Theatricals was clearly the most important non-academic activity in my Harvard experience." Although the club and the theatricals boast a good working relationship, their ties are tenuous...
Beyond cultural ties, the points of confluence in terms of nationalism between mainland Chinese and their Taiwanese counterparts are few and increasingly tenuous. One of the few notable exceptions is the memory of Sun Yat-sen, founder of modern China, who is still revered by many on both sides. Though his influence has greatly declined in recent times, the government on Taiwan had publicly idolized him for years. If reconciliation is to be ever possible between the adversaries, perhaps they should revisit the principles promoted by this idealist, returning to the original hopes and dreams that were never fully realized...