Word: tensioning
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...admirable. And it is, in a way, I suppose. Before Bush, leadership had fallen out of favor as a political strategy. Followship was all the rage: follow the polls, follow the focus groups, follow your consultants. "Leadership," wrote Dick Morris, the Iago of the Clinton era, "is a dynamic tension between where a politician thinks his country must go and where his voters want it to go." And guess who usually wins that tug-of-war? (Actually, it's neither the voters nor the politician; it's the consultant who massages the data and advises, "Be careful, Mr. President...
Representing Occidental College, Lee competed in the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s 1942 diving nationals, held at the University pool complex currently known as the Malkin Athletic Center. As several divers upped the ante with an increasing number of perfect scores, others fell apart under the tension...
...Laskar Jundullah members. When they raided the houses of those five suspects, they found semi-automatic rifles, bomb materials and, in the workshop of the alleged bomb maker, detailed sketches of Christian churches. (Laskar Jundullah is openly anti-Christian; Indonesian intelligence officials suspect that the group has been provoking tension in Maluku and Poso.) According to National Police Chief Da'i Bachtiar, one of the men arrested, Suryadi, is an associate of Imam Samudra, whom police say was the mastermind of the Bali bombings and a devotee of Abubakar Ba'asyir, alleged co-founder of JI. "Dwikarna, the bombers, Abubakar...
...Lindsey--at bottom reflecting the mutual distrust between a corporate honcho and an intellectual--were getting increasingly personal. Lindsey was fingered for leaking damaging criticism of O'Neill and Hubbard. At strategy sessions with Bush, O'Neill frequently interrupted Lindsey to disagree with him. "There was no creative tension," says a senior aide, "just tension." After the bloodletting last week, staff members for each man blamed the other for their boss's misfortune. For a White House that prides itself on unity and order, it was an exceptional day. "Emotions around here are pretty raw," said a senior White House...
...that equipment shipped to the Yemeni military could, in the long run, fall into the hands of terrorists. Yemen's backing of Iraq during the first Gulf War may also have left U.S. officials concerned at the fact that it was acquiring such weapons at a time of mounting tension in the Gulf. Such concerns might be amplified by the fact that Yemen faces no external military threats - its topography alone makes it a difficult country to contemplate invading. Its primary security concern is the domestic threat of Islamist terrorism, and obviously the SCUDs have little use in that battle...