Word: yang
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Besides having a super cool website (click on the yin-yang!), the Harvard Tai Chi Tiger Crane Club offers a kick-ass, karate-choppin' good time. The club, Harvard's original martial arts group, runs the February Harvard Martial Arts Expo in Agassiz Theater and organizes the Annual Harvard Conference on Tai Chi and Health. Members of the club can choose to focus on tai chi or kung fu (there are separate practices for each, plus a joint practice on Sundays), and follow the professional leadership of Master Yon Lee. Members also perform at occasional events and make appearances...
...Emily Y. Yang '01, co-president of the Asian American Association, agreed that "something tangible," like buying furniture for the center, would be helpful in prodding the administration into action...
...richer obscurantism. The thoughtful spectator will see the players as nodes through which institutionalized power relations are transmitted. From the flip of the coin, the stark binary "Either/Or" ("heads" or "tails") introduces us to a divided universe (kick off or receive? offense or defense?), a jockstrap yin-yang played out in a temporal dynamic of four quarters in a cycle of Sundays that recapitulates Vico...or is it Ibn Khaldun? I forget...
...fact, now that TIME's cover on Clinton and Starr has established the possibility of having yin-and-yang Men of the Year, we might look forward next year to having Larry Flynt and Richard Mellon Scaife. They would be presented as symbols of the enduring two-party system that's at the heart of our democracy...
This kind of investigatory yin and yang is keeping opponents of DNA fingerprinting mollified--but for how long? Now that the gene genie is out of the bottle, there may be little that can be done to stuff it back in. Scientists in the U.S. and England already speak dreamily of moving beyond testing STRs alone, expanding their work to sample other--more richly encoded--areas of the genome. Kevin Sullivan of England's Forensic Science Service predicts that within a decade researchers may be able to use DNA analysis to draw a sort of genetic police sketch...