Word: tension
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...emblematic American journey," says Ronda. "In U.S. history there is always a tension between home and the road. We talk a good talk about the joys of home, but the truth is we are obsessed with the road...
...ahead to find the Shoshone and the horses they desperately needed to cross the mountains. But just a few weeks later, when the entire party was near starvation on the Lolo Trail, it was Clark's turn to strike out ahead to hunt for food. If there ever was tension between them along the way, it was not recorded. Each captain consistently referred to the other as "my friend Capt. C." or "my worthy friend Capt. Lewis" and seemed to mean it. After he was accidentally shot in the backside by Pierre Cruzatte on a hunting trip, Lewis spent...
...first black professor to receive full tenure at Harvard blasted Harvard Professor of Law Randall L. Kennedy in writing last week, blaming the professor’s recent book for inciting occurrences of racial tension at Harvard Law School (HLS) this past spring...
Among Kilson’s claims about Kennedy was the assertion that his colleague did not do anything to calm racial tension at HLS this spring...
...been quietly exasperated by the new policy he announced last week that made Yasser Arafat's ouster a precondition for progress. Continuing conflict in the West Bank and Gaza puts their alliance with the U.S. under domestic political strain, and there's considerable fear in Arab capitals that this tension will be exacerbated if - or more likely when - the U.S. ignores their reservations and invades Iraq. The Bush administration appears to be calculating that decisive action to eliminate the noxious regime in Baghdad will do more to transform the political climate in the Arab world than piecemeal interventions into...