Word: tensioning
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...pretty Stewart is a questioning, questing presence; the Brit Pattinson, a sensitive-stud dreamboat. And Hardwicke is faithful to the book's chaste eroticism. The couple must put off having sex because, well, it could kill Bella. (AIDS metaphors are unavoidable here.) Yet waiting has its own delicious tension...
...ended up gaining about 30 pounds freshman year, and there was definitely tension,” Ehrlich says. “I was nervous they were going to ship me over to O, but I’m glad I stayed...
...South Africa, SADC leaders recommended that the MDC and Zanu-PF should share control of Home Affairs - a proposal that would keep the balance of power tilted firmly to Mugabe's advantage and would effectively make the opposition the junior partner in a unity government. (See pictures of political tension in Zimbabwe...
...weeklong summit, which includes elected members of Tibet's parliament-in-exile, nongovernmental organizations and protest groups, comes at a critical time. After the Dalai Lama indicated recently that he had all but given up on negotiations with China over autonomy for Tibet, there has been increasing tension between Tibetan conservatives, who favor continuing talks, and younger radicals, who want to push for a free Tibet. After protests this March in Lhasa that turned violent, the radicals were energized. But since then they have been unable to channel their efforts constructively. "The community is feeling slightly lost and helpless," says...
...Faculty affairs and complained that he exerted too much influence on their deliberations.He initially served as an ex officio member of the curricular review’s Committee on General Education, chaired by then-FAS Dean Kirby, but Summers was soon pressured by Faculty members to bow out.The ongoing tension between Summers and members of the Faculty was further strained by Kirby’s sudden decision to resign in January 2006.Though Summers and Kirby never publicly acknowledged their falling-out, sources close to the central administration said at the time that Summers had forced him out.Following Kirby?...