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What is not so good is the loss of romance. Less formality means less romance—less courting, less tension, less excitement. Relations between women and men are rather unerotic. The hormones are there; so too the attractions of youthful bodies and the permission to experiment. The result is lots of sex (or so I hear): recreational sex, loveless sex, hook-ups. There is more consummation and less yearning...
...particular, learning about the constant tension between self and community described in Jewish texts has spoken to Saito. “It helps mediate my Asian-Western dichotomy, the individual-centered Western thought versus the idea in Asian thought that you act because it is your part to play in the community,” Saito says. He is given to waxing metaphysical, particularly since his conversion led him to read a wide variety of philosophical texts...
...Harvard students may not reach a peace treaty resolving Israeli-Palestinian conflict—at least not before graduation—but they can arrive at a cease-fire to defuse the tension that has marred on-campus debate. To accomplish this, the brash ideologues on campus must make room for more measured voices to set the tone of discourse...
...this to be like section,” says Weinfeld, a history concentrator in Mather House. So far, he doesn’t have any cause for concern on that front. The emotional temperature at the dialogues has been scalding. “There was definitely a lot of tension,” Hamdi says, specifically referring to the Lowell House event. “What we appreciate about the people here is that participants get very angry here but when they leave they are civil and willing to talk about these issues outside...
...cited recent examples of international tension, including Turkey’s resistance to allowing American troops to use its terriroty and delayed negotiations with North Korea, as signs of America’s declining appeal...