Word: tension
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...part of the display. Over 130 years ago James was able to make the observation, “The everlasting shuffle of these irresponsible visitors in the Piazza is contemporary Venetian life. Everything else is only a reverberation of that..” His words demonstrate that the tension between being boxed in as a tourist and yet having nothing to escape to is not a recent phenomenon to Venice, but reflects what Venice is, and, in a sense, what it always has been...
...even before the Declaration of Independence, in Connecticut's Newgate prison in 1774, and uprisings continue to this day. One report estimates that U.S. correctional institutions saw more than 1,300 riots in the 20th century. Prison insurgencies can be tied to a wide range of causes, including racial tension, gang rivalries, individual feuds and general grievances against guards and prison administrators. (See pictures of Gitmo detainees' portraits...
...medical care was unavailable to them, but the order also cited concerns over public safety. "In these overcrowded conditions," the judges wrote, "inmate-on-inmate violence is almost impossible to prevent." Just last month, Federal Bureau of Prisons head Harry Lappin warned Congress that "crowded prisons result in greater tension, frustration and anger among the inmate population, which leads to conflicts and violence...
...pictures of tension in Burma...
...Tension between the President-elect and his chief patron flared in public last week when Khamenei ordered Ahmadinejad to fire his chosen deputy, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei. Ahmadinejad not only publicly dragged his feet for almost a week in implementing the order, he made his contempt for the Ayatullah's edict plain by immediately reappointing Mashaei as his chief of staff. The President also sacked members of his Cabinet who had insisted that Khamenei's demand be heeded, including the powerful conservative Intelligence Minister. Following that clash of wills, a Tehran newspaper known to express Khamenei's views called the President...