Whatever the reasons, Mr. Yee has been central to a decades-long schism in Chinatown that to outsiders has seemed largely inscrutable but is rarely dull.
Three hours into tea-time chat, we're still skirting the mystery of the summer-long schism with Mr. Hirschfeld, who took her to court in May.
(That long internalised schism perhaps also helps to explain why, in Google's 2013 Zeitgeist survey, Ugandans searched for "homosexuality" more than any other nation on earth; Kenyans were third).
It is a question of how long this schism can be uphold, especially in the light of the challenges by joining the EU.
The reason, said Ilya R. Segal, a professor at Stanford who trained as a theoretician at M.I.T., stems from a long-running schism between two stereotypical schools of empirical, or applied, economics: one that favors data-intensive studies with only cursory theoretical models and another that insists on rigorous theoretical underpinnings for all assumptions.
Indeed, in many countries, the standards document is considered to represent the unification of diverse disciplines and years of research on young children in those disciplines, therein assuaging the long-extant schism between health, care, and education.
Few long-lasting schisms took place along these lines (though the Waldenses and the Hussites have survived as separate bodies).
"Either way, the next European referendum looks set to widen the long, slow-motion schism in the Tories in the same way as the 1974 European referendum did to Labour, before the breakaway of the SDP".
LONDON — Since the remarkable coincidence of their inaugurations just days apart, there has seemed no doubt that Pope Francis and the Most Rev. Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury, would bring a new tone, language and imagery to the long years of schism dividing their churches since Henry VIII broke with Rome in the 16th century.
While the Amish have a long history of schisms, clusters of congregations tend to have cooperative ties, and the fact that Mr. Mullet's group is not linked to any other is a sign of their renegade status, said David McConnell, an anthropologist at the College of Wooster who studies the Amish.
Ellis also witnesses the long-perceived cultural schism between classical and theater organ, but sees it as one that is mending itself through younger, more open-minded generations, who are willing to look at it all as pipe organ in general.
