Word: tensioning
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...nominations show, which aired Wednesday night on CBS, may have been the recording academy's attempt at injecting some life into the process, but it was also aggressively dull. It turns out there isn't much tension in announcing the five possible best things in a category or in watching the Foo Fighters, Christina Aguilera and Celine Dion perform "classic songs from Grammy history." At least the Grammy folks did a credible job of picking the best music of the 12 months between Oct. 1, 2007, through Sept. 30, 2008 (even if their ancient rules still haven't adjusted...
...alive and arrested, Ajmal Amir Kasab, has been identified by Indian authorities as Pakistani. (The other nine suspects were killed by police.) U.S. intelligence officials have pointed to a Pakistan-based militant group, Lashkar-e-Taiba, as the likely perpetrator. This trickle of evidence has heated up the simmering tension between the countries, pushing them down an alarmingly familiar path - the same one that led these two nuclear-armed countries to the brink of war after the 2001 attack on India's Parliament. That was also blamed partly on Lashkar-e-Taiba, and more than half a million Indian...
...SMOOTH START Keep your fist loose as you begin to swing, says De La Hoya. Tension just slows you down and tires...
...about the place as well. Finding the pieces was sometimes a matter of going to the out-of-town newsstand - which is probably closed by now - and buying a two-foot pile of newspapers from various parts of the country. Obviously reporters are always looking for stories with some tension and some narrative movement. I often found myself in places where one part of society was rubbing up against another. And then sometimes I'd sort of feel worn down by controversies and murders, and I'd look for a light story about a crawfish festival, or something like that...
...accused the Congress of cooking up charges against the arrested Hindu right-wingers, while the Congress has been accusing the BJP of playing a double-game of pointing fingers at the Congress while lending a hand to Hindu-fundamentalist terrorists. Mumbai has been a focus of the tension between the parties, as several of the so-called Hindu terror arrests have taken place in or near the city. Perhaps the size and scale of this most recent attack will force the country's political leaders to finally push through a long-shelved proposal to co-ordinate intelligence on terror incidents...