Word: tensioning
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...both a political figure and the star of a domestic drama: her husband's infidelity and impeachment. "She has the soapiest personal story, combined with the potential to be the most powerful leader in the world," says Darren Star, former producer of Sex and the City. "The tension between the two is what's really interesting to me. Women's careers have changed, but in many ways their personal lives haven...
...ever came, would hurt twice as badly. It’s important to remember that this team is not simply a winning machine, that it’s human. Not human because—have you heard?—Brady sometimes brings flowers to his girlfriend. No, the tension exists because the Patriots are vulnerable, due to their apparent invincibility. More vulnerable, and thus more exciting, more fun to follow, because they have the most to gain by winning, and to lose by losing. Giants fans will rightfully argue that their team is more vulnerable, more exciting, because...
...That was one of the great unquantifiable achievements of Clinton's presidency: he brought whites and blacks together, after years of racial tension, even within the Democratic Party. He was the first President to talk easily with blacks, as equals, without condescension. He was the best white politician I have ever seen in a black church. The bond he built with that community seemed unbreakable. And so it was shocking - heartbreaking - to see it shattered in South Carolina, shattered by a thoughtless, solipsistic need for victory at any cost...
Nowhere is the tension between work and faith more pronounced than in France. There, laïcité, or secularism, dictates that religion should be confined to the private sphere. Though the 1978 Islamic Revolution in Iran shattered the long-cherished view that modernization inevitably pushes people away from faith and toward secularism, French Muslim professionals say they often face the assumption from their colleagues that career success will have this effect. "If you're doing well, they assume you're one of them, and so you're secular," says Parisian Muslim Zoubeir Ben Terdeyet, a consultant with an international...
...That was one of the great unquantifiable achievements of Clinton's presidency: he brought whites and blacks together, after years of racial tension, even within the Democratic Party. He was the first President to talk easily with blacks, as equals, without condescension. He was the best white politician I have ever seen in a black church. The bond he built with that community seemed unbreakable. And so it was shocking-heartbreaking-to see it shattered in South Carolina, shattered by a thoughtless, solipsistic need for victory at any cost...