Word: tension
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...Capitol Hill, the topic is a source of mounting tension in the House Intelligence Committee, which some observers say has lagged behind its less-partisan Senate counterpart in probing the administration's handling of pre-war intelligence on Iraq. According to a knowledgeable source, a closed hearing last week saw Democratic congressman Silvestre Reyes read into the record a secret memo he'd sent Republican chairman Porter Goss and ranking Democrat Jane Harman last February - more than a month before the war. Reyes, who through an aide declined to comment, raised concern in the memo that the panel might have...
...gathered the pass from senior Liz Andrews, junior midfielder Kate Gannon knew what needed to happen. After six intense, pressure-packed overtime minutes, Gannon brought an end to the tension, scoring the sudden-death goal to give the Harvard field hockey team a 3-2 victory over Penn...
Orfield said the awareness of potential tension had not lessened the CRP’s eagerness to include Summers in the conference—which he said was the result of a late request from the president’s office...
...Strolling in Golden Gate Park, Amir watches a pair of kites overhead and recalls his childhood friend and servant, Hassan, who is a Hazara, one of Afghanistan's persecuted minorities. The boys are inseparable, but their friendship is fraught with tension. Amir is quiet, bookish and jealous of the attention his father bestows on the athletic, courageous Hassan. Angry and frustrated, he plays cruel jokes on his friend, guiltily justifying them on the basis of Hassan's low status: "Because history isn't easy to overcome. I was a Pashtun and he was a Hazara, and nothing was ever going...
...composed of members from both factions has become bogged down in mutual hostility and distrust. Ironically, Gbagbo supporters who have long suspected France of colluding with rebels applauded the Paris arrests, while government members drawn from insurgents' ranks denounced the French as Gbagbo "puppets" who framed Coulibaly. The increased tension comes just two weeks after the resignation of President Charles Taylor in neighboring Liberia quelled civil war there - and raised hopes that calm and stability might return to the entire violence-stricken region. Along with Coulibaly's arrest and the wave of Abidjan detentions, passions were inflamed when Ivorian rebels...