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...Washington, for its part, has worked to move China policy beyond crisis-management. The most important step: Taking annual reviews of the relationship off the political calendar. Until the Clinton administration changed this a couple of years ago, there would be an escalation of tension when China's Most Favored Nation trade status came up for review and the U.S. threatened sanctions over human rights abuses or intellectual-property piracy or the sale of weapons. None of those concerns has gone away, and important differences remain. But they're now being pursued in a less confrontational way. And that...
...Kabul, too, the new order is looking a little shaky. Last week's mob murder of a government minister is being interpreted as a sign of mounting ethnic tension within Karzai's government (always an unlikely alliance of Northern Alliance commanders and Pashtun royalists). And two attacks on British peacekeeping troops in Kabul in the past week has underscored a sense that even the capital's streets are not entirely secure...
...debut album, Ruby Vroom (1994) to create an incredibly satisfying sound that really resembles neither. Despite the album’s cool bluesy blue that resounds against an almost mathematical precision, what emerges from this darkness is not danger but a deeply sexy rhythm that deftly balances tension and comfort. By their second album, Irresistible Bliss (1996), Soul Coughing had settled on a more summery sound, letting up the tension a bit in favor of a sly, upbeat smile, and even sampling a swinging Vaudeville melody for “Disseminated.” And on their third and final...
...that she would fly off the handle at any moment. She seemed stifled, slightly ill at ease, almost hysterical. Then she broke into the schizophrenic voice of her irrational stage alter ego, which sounds like a combination of a southern preacher, an axe murderer and a juvenile delinquent. The tension evaporated, and she did what she does best: perform...
...American soldier taken prisoner by the Germans near the end of World War II. His POW camp is ruled by an unintentionally humorous German colonel and Willis’ Col. McNamara. Shortly after Hart begins his stay at the camp, the arrival of two black pilots creates racial tension among the inmates of the camp. The uneasiness results in two deaths and a court-martial trial, in which Hart is called upon to represent and defend one of the black...