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...UMass RAs do form a union, they will succeed only in changing the relationship between their university and themselves for the worse. RAs currently function as liaisons between the university and students; the tension that often accompanies union negotiations will be detrimental to this relationship. UMass representatives say that if RAs unionize the University may be forced to replace undergraduate RAs with graduate students—a measure that would help no one and would deprive all students of the undergraduate leadership RAs provide. Though some have said this is merely a bargaining tactic by the UMass administration, it appears...
Pause. Uncomfortable silence. Among the clan for whom a wrong answer equals more shopping, tension and anticipation builds as the professor, fumbling to mix the right dose of anesthetizing sympathy with academic severity in front of what seems like a thousand pairs of eyes, weighs his options...
...most part, protesters and counter-protesters were civil. But there was tension, nonetheless. There was shouting. There were scowls. There were rowdy passers-by who antagonized both sides. The low-point was overhearing a counter-protester tell an anti-Arab joke to his friends. (I did not recognize this individual and I pray that he is not a member of the Harvard community.) And there was the sheer awkwardness of looking across the street and seeing one’s friends and classmates vehemently protesting against what I feel is a just cause...
...homemade grenades hurled at "Termite" post by Palestinians at the edge of the Rafah refugee camp. 2nd Lieut. Sama'ana Owdeh stares at the infrared screen linked to Termite's rooftop surveillance camera. He directs the camera at one cinder-block house, then another. His eyes twitch with tension and concentration. "You see them?" he barks to the men at their guns. Another grenade explodes, louder and nearer, and this time a machine gun fires too--at the post. "That's very close!" Owdeh shouts. The Israeli machine guns open up a brief, deafening volley. But their target has retreated...
...Underwood eased the tension over Lewis’ slip, revealing that he has also been called “Blair Underwear...