Word: tensioning
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...When it finally came time for Alito to give his opening statement, he added to the tension by taking a long moment to collect himself, sort his notes and gulp a long slow drink of water. When he started to speak his voice was tense but controlled. "I am deeply honored to appear before you," Alito said, "I am deeply honored to have been nominated for a position on the Supreme Court. And I am humbled to have been nominated for the seat that is now held by Justice O'Connor." Alito was appearing stiff and cold as predicted...
...until he got to Brown University. When Yang was a freshman in 1995, there were 854 other Asian Americans enrolled?a full 15% of the undergraduate student body. "It was sort of culture shock. I had never met kids like me," he says. "We all grew up feeling the tension between trying to be Asian and trying to be American. We really bonded over the idiosyncrasies of being between two cultures." During his senior year, he roomed with five other Chinese Americans, and his close friends included children of Japanese, Thai, Filipino, Indian and Korean immigrants...
...course, such tension is common to generations of immigrants. But Jack Tchen, director of Asian/Pacific/American Studies at N.Y.U., says these second-generation immigrants are beginning to find a middle ground and to "define a new modern form of Asian modernity, not necessarily the same as American modernity." That is what sociologists call identity building, and for the second generation, it is based not on a common ethnicity, faith or language (except English) but on shared experience...
...review progress toward the Millennium Development Goals--all relevant to lifting people out of poverty. But they needed to be tied together and pitched as potentially world changing. "Politicians are performers of a kind, but they're not great at dramatizing a situation," says Bono. "These issues need tension, jeopardy and a sense of what-might-be to succeed. All of that is much more from our language than from theirs...
...minutes from the Sept. 29 meeting invoke Robert Frost to illustrate the tension between Summers and the Faculty that has characterized much of the president’s tenure...