Word: tensioning
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...rational person would deny a potential offender treatment, but no rational parent with a child to protect would not also want to tie a bell around the pedophile's neck before a potential offense can become a real one. It's in that clash of strategies that the tension lies, but it's a tension we'd best resolve soon. The tragedy in Pennsylvania is a terrible reminder of the price of waiting...
...Pope is backtracking, but he has shown his real self: he is a latter-day Crusader. Farrukh Seer Lahore, Pakistan Benedict XVI is not just an academician anymore but the political figurehead of the Roman Catholic Church. He made quite a clumsy statement at a time when the tension between civilizations is growing. I disagree with any attempt to draw a line between Islam and Christianity by trying to prove that the former is more "irrational" than the latter. Christianity's violent past shows that such a claim can't be justified. Andriy Sukhodub Dundee, Scotland Pope Benedict...
...Most Militarized Border Tension between the two Koreas escalates after the North tests a nuclear weapon. Here's a look at life in the Korean...
...There is at least a percieved threat of nuclear tension between China and NoKo, but that isn't stopping the two from doing business. NKZone has an item on plans to develop the new port of Rajin under a 50-year agreement with the Chinese city of Hunchun...
...many ways, that story line is the product of the strains within the party over homosexuality. It's a tension nearly as deep and tortured as those the Democrats grappled with over race a half-century ago, when they tried--unsuccessfully--to keep an uneasy coalition of Southern segregationists and Northern civil rights advocates from tearing their party apart. Even though many of the G.O.P.'s policies have been hostile to gay rights, its leaders have long followed a "Don't ask, don't tell" policy with what pretty much everyone in Washington knows is a sizable number of closeted...