Word: tension
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...statement purportedly made by bin Laden, a separate bin Laden audiotape played on the Qatari TV channel al Jazeera and another ostensibly from his second in command, Ayman al-Zawahiri (U.S. authorities believe that the voice on the tape was indeed al-Zawahiri's)--have added to the tension. A senior State Department official believes that the messages by bin Laden and al-Zawahiri may amount to the starting gun for a fresh campaign. Saad al Fagih, a Saudi dissident based in London, says those in circles close to al-Qaeda talk these days with "strange confidence" about a second...
...them and us from a war brought on by terrorism. And then sometimes someone would ask when this will all come to be and when we will be able to reopen our borders without fear, as they were two years ago, and we would all laugh to relieve the tension of not knowing the answer...
...Harvard was a shock, but not for the reasons others had anticipated. For example, I had to learn what the norms for physical affection were for the rest of the world. My classmates grew up on one another’s bodies, in a constant contact stripped of sexual tension by years of familiarity. At Harvard, this same tactile dependency was construed as flirtatious invitation, which took me a whole semester of misled friends to understand...
Former advisors to John F. Kennedy ’40 relived the tension of the Cuban missile crisis at the Kennedy School of Government’s ARCO Forum Friday, 40 years after the U.S. teetered on the brink of nuclear...
...tension, I mean isolation,” he said. “A few not-so-friendly e-mails were exchanged...